[WriteLog] WL not saving configuration "right" (fwd)

Bob McCormick W1QA writelog at W1QA.com
Fri Dec 19 20:32:07 EST 2003


My previous post:

> > BTW, for some reason, YOUR email just showed up in
> > the S O B I G  V i r u s trap filter mailbox on the 
> > Unix.  I don't have this problem with other "Mailing 
> > List" (a/ka/ "Refelector") things I subscribe to.  
> > Only with WriteLog.  This is just too bizarre, man.
> 
> Well - I have not seen any viruses come through
> this list at all ... of course, I've got some 
> anti-virus built into the mail server I'm using,
> so I would not be likely to see it anyway.
> 
> In a different post you noted having a lot of 
> problems with email, spams, etc.  A quick look
> at the setup of the SMTP server that supports
> your domain seems to show that it accepts mail 
> addressed to any address in your domain.  If that
> is in fact the case, that just leaves you open to
> some significant spam abuse; use of "wildcard" or
> "nobody" catch-all mailboxes is usually frowned
> upon.  Doesn't make any sense in 2003 ...

I stand corrected ... your mail server accepted my mail,
and eventually returned a R E J E C T E D message:

>> Your e-mail has been AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED 
>> by my sophisticated anti-spam and new anti-
>> CyberTerrorist filtering for one of the reasons 
>> listed below.

Bob W1QA



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