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Re: [milter-greylist] Address parsing bug in 1.7.5

2005-02-11 by Brian W. Antoine

At 11:37 AM 02/11/2005, Jack L. Stone wrote:

>At 10:00 AM 2.11.2005 -0800, Brian W. Antoine wrote:
> >
> >   It appears that there is a bug in the way from addresses are parsed if
> >an equals sign appears in them.
> >
> >Example:
> >
> >Feb 10 08:38:35 mxa milter-greylist: j1AGcYDf023468: addr 64.192.229.17
> >from =windwireless.net@...> rcpt <user@...>:
> >autowhitelisted for more 120:00:00
> >Feb 10 08:38:36 mxa sendmail[23468]: j1AGcYDf023468:
> >from=<bounce-9985-user=windwireless.net@...>, size=6682,
> >class=0, nrcpts=1,
> >msgid=<200502101638.j1AGcYDf023468@...>, proto=SMTP,
> >daemon=MTA, relay=mta1.m.freeride.com [64.192.229.17]
> >
> >   Sendmail correctly shows the entire from address, the milter is only
> >getting the tail end of it starting at the equals sign.  I checked in
> >the greylist.db file, it's broken there also.
> >
>
>Yes, I've noticed the same thing with the "=" sign on V-1.75. I've been
>cleaning them out on occasion.

   I found them writing a report for our users showing what we'd filtered
from their accounts, I couldn't find the matching milter entry for the
sendmail entry sometimes.  The other effect is whitelisting more senders
than should be once it gets into the db that way.

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