[pmmail-list] virus kills pmmail

Steve Barber pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:17:36 -0400


On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:39:17 -0500 (CDT), Richard wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:56:50 +0100 (BST), Dave Saville wrote:
>
>>Most likely this explains a good percentage of "spam kills pmmail"
>>problems. Now who gets killer spam and has *no* AV in place?
>
>My wife.  We've narrowed it down to a funny leading charictor in
>the subject. A hyphen or a ">".  She goes to remote controle,
>deletes the offender and downloads the rest.  No virus detector.
> No virus present. 
>//------------------------ 
>// Richard Epps

My recollection was that the offending message was almost
always SPAM, but didn't necessarily contain a virus.  My
guess was it was something hosed in the header of some SPAM
that pmmail couldn't handle.  

SteveB
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