Posted by Rory Browne on 08/17/05 16:14

Can you explain exactly what he tried to do. I should probably be able
to figure this out, but I'm not feeling too well today.

He modded his message to put different email addresses into the
message field using mime headers?

On 8/16/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a form that my visitors can email me from. Some jerk is trying
> to fool the mail() function into sending his spam, and I got this
> today:
> <start asshole code>
> ejmxmdmxh@dotancohen.com
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"===============0110030565==\"
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Subject: 7510b460
> To: ejmxmdmxh@dotancohen.com
> bcc: bergkoch8@aol.com
> From: ejmxmdmxh@dotancohen.com
>
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
> --===============0110030565==
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> blrt
> --===============0110030565==--
> </start asshole code>
>
> I just updated the code to stop this. I think that if anybody else has
> a form that goes to the mail() function, they should learn from this
> email and put up some code to block it.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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