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Re: I found this today and iam reporting it to you first!!! (fwd)
From: dulitz () VALLEYTECH COM (Daniel W. Dulitz x108)
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:12:31 -0400
[ We're veering into technical mail stuff, so this will be my last cc: to Bugtraq. ] Bret Watson writes:
Exactly... however - many mail servers _are_ misconfigured. especially those using an external-internal relay...
Preventing infinite error bouncing is not terribly difficult to begin with, and it's no more or less difficult on a boundary relay than it is on an ordinary MX relay. It takes quite a bit of work to misconfigure sendmail or qmail so that they will cause mail loops for bounce messages. Remember that the original claim was:
basically find two sites whose FW is conf'd to accept all mail and forward it to the real mailserver. If this mailserver bounces invalid addresses then you're on your way...
And that's just wrong, as was the original suggestion that the problem is caused by delayed error notification. The problem is caused by a difficult-to-accomplish misconfiguration: either (a) the Return-Path header was incorrectly set, or (b) the bounce message was sent with a non-null envelope address. Best, daniel dulitz
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