Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] list signup concerns

["Captain Nemo" <vulcania@hawaii.rr.com>]

Jon, 

Testing abilities to reply to messages originating at the PSUBS group.

Pat


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Wallace" <jon@psubs.org>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 4:16 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] list signup concerns


> 
> Shipmates,
> 
> I checked the majordomo logs and indeed on May 12 there are four
> attempts by "Captain Nemo" to join the list which failed due to
> invalid host addresses being defined in the request to join. 
> 
> vulcania@hawaii.rr.com=20
> vulcania@hawaii.rr.com=3D20=20
> vulcania@hawaii.rr.com=3D3D20=3D20=20
> vulcania@hawaii.rr.com3D3D20=3D3D20=3D20 =
> 
> It appears that some type of control characters are being included after
> the "com" top level domain, so majordomo rejected the requests because
> it could not validate the domain as being authentic.          
> 
> Capt. Nemo did however successfully join the list May 12 06:23:17, but
> it appears his messages may be getting rejected because his server 
> utilizes x.400 mail headers.  Majordomo will not allow incoming mail
> with x.400 headers because they can apparently be used to manipulate
> majordomo config files.  While this is unfortunate, server security
> comes first, so anyone utilizing x.400 headers will need to find an
> alternate email server for their originating messages.
> 
> Jon
> PSUBS.ORG