[antispam-f] Re: Broken pipe in lists
- From: Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:43:52 GMT
In a recent message Steven Pampling
<steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 23 Dec, Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> TFM assures me that the broken pipe at the end of an list entry will=20
>> ensure that it is followed by a non alphanumeric. I have just found=20
>> that '.' is considered to be an alphanumeric.
>
>> I had ".mx=A6" to trap Mexico as a list entry and found that AOL have
>> a=20 Received: line ...mx.aol.com. Hasty apologies to my friend.
>
>> Are there any other sneaky country TLDs?
>
> When trapping things like .mx it is best to work on the basis of the TLD
> reference being ".mx>" i.e. *always* include the >
>
Fine if you are testing From: I was testing Received: , this is much
less susceptible to spoofing as it is under the control of the isp's
servers.
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Dave
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