Re: Spammer jammer

["JK" <johnking@xxxxxxx>]

All,

 While filling in for an on-vacation operator this week I discovered that
our V5R2 box suffers from the same situation several times a week. According
to the operator’s notes, IBM is aware of the problem but claims that there
is nothing that they can do about it. His procedure describes how to use
WRKLNK to search for and delete the bogus file(s).

 I'm aware that we could use the OpsNav spam filter (if we knew the
addresses in advance) or we could restart MSF with the *CLEAR option (after
the problem occurs), but I'm looking for a preventive solution.

 Maybe I don’t have the big picture here - can someone educate me about why
a malformed text message can take out the iSeries MSF server and what can be
done to prevent it? Has anyone worked with MSF exit points? The “AnyMail MSF
Guide” (SC41-5411-00) refers to an “MSF Developers Guide (GG24-4449), but
the links to that redbook seem to have been removed from the IBM website.

 Installing a separate box to handle incoming email is not an option for us.
What are the rest of you doing?

Thank you, JK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 27. april 2004 14:25
Subject: Spammer jammer


> There is some %&#@* spammer who sends me a spam every morning about 7am.
> This spammer is so dumb and the email is so malformed that the iSeries
(our
> mail server) cannot digest it and gives up.  Therefore no cleanup takes
> place and the same messages get delivered to me again and again and again
> and again and again until I go blow away this particular file in
> QTCPTMM/MAIL/JEFF.
> 
> Is there some way/setting/method that I can do to the iSeries email server
> to simply blow away malformed emails?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Crosby
> Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531
> 
> The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
> company.  Unless I say so.

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