[ale] Strange mail stuff

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Ken Nagorski wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>         I got this from a small mail/web server I run. Being that mail is
> my weakest area I am not really sure what this means. I think someone
> tried to spam from the server but I am not sure the subject said that the
> message was "Unbalanced"

The relevant bit is about "Unbalanced '<'". While parsing the address
header, the server found a '<' character without a matching '>', so
the address was malformed and the server dropped the messages.

Anything with a domain name like "quickinspirations.com" has just
got to be spam }B-}

-- Joe
 
>         Below is what I got from the mail... I know I have checked this
> server with the maps mail checker thing before. It said that I did not
> have an open relay. As a matter of fact I am 99.9% sure I just get REAL
> paraniod.
> 
> >
> >
> > Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at ns.pcintelligent.com> wrote ..
> > > The original message was received at Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:57:06 -0400
> > > from mail14.quickinspirations.com [64.37.73.214] (may be forged)
> > > with id f57Iv6J24471
> > >
> > >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > 553 5.0.0 Quick Inspiration
> <centennial at quickinspirations.com... Unbalanced '<'
> > > 553 5.0.0 Quick Inspiration
> <centennial at quickinspirations.com... Unbalanced '<'
> > > 553 5.0.0 Quick Inspiration
> <centennial at quickinspirations.com... Unbalanced '<'
>     [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]
> 
> Reporting-MTA: dns; ns.pcintelligent.com
> Received-From-MTA: DNS; mail14.quickinspirations.com
> Arrival-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:57:06 -0400
> 
> Return-Path: <centennial at quickinspirations.com>
> Received: from CYBERMAIL14.mailer14.quickinspirations.com
> (mail14.quickinspirations.com
> [64.37.73.214] (may be forged))
>         by ns.pcintelligent.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f57Iv6J24471
>         for <pamk at wicwipers.com>; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:57:06 -0400
> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:57:06 -0400
> Message-Id: <200106071857.f57Iv6J24471 at ns.pcintelligent.com>
> Received: from (127.0.0.1) by CYBERMAIL14.mailer14.quickinspirations.com
> (PowerMTA(TM) v1.0);
> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:57:10 -0700 (envelope-from
> <centennial at quickinspirations.com>)
> From: Quick Inspiration <centennial at quickinspirations.com>
> To: pamk at wicwipers.com
> Subject: You Deserve A New Credit Card
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=65536

-- Joseph A. Knapka
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