| From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Message-ID should surely not be shown as a mailto: URL |
| Date: | 2008-06-09 13:55:04 |
| Message-ID: | 20080609135503.GB83012@commandprompt.com |
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:30:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Hm, I wonder if sloppiness of this sort accounts for the remarkable
> prevalence in my mail logs of spam-sign like this:
>
> Jun 9 00:44:06 sss2 sm-mta[4062]: m594i5Ns004062: <19570(dot)1142971720(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>... User unknown
Good bet.
> I don't pretend to know what is the approved way to deal with these
> issues, but *this* can't be best practice.
Obviously, someone is looking for something that _looks_ like a mail
address, attempting to munge it, and on the way through, changing it
to a mailto: link. I think some parsing of the RFC2821/2822 headers
is needed first, so that one doesn't do this for things like the
message id.
A
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