Package: amavisd-new Version: 20030616p10-5 Severity: normal
Today I noticed that two of the mails sent to postmaster about viruses had the same message-id (headers included below). Collisions are bad, as some people automatically discard messages with duplicate IDs. The message-ids seem to be [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 00 < x < 99. I can't ascertain the derivation of the 'x's, but they would appear to be heavily biased towards numbers <= 10. This only leaves, at best, a id-space of about 3 million ids. A figure a tenth of that seems more likely. This is a bit small. I propose adding time since the epoch to the message id as a solution. Thanks, Brian Return-Path: <> X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.netsoc.tcd.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9D7546CE for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:27:01 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:27:01 +0000 (GMT) From: amavisd-new <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: VIRUS (Worm.Mytob.CW) FROM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Return-Path: <> X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.netsoc.tcd.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E2F5457A for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:19:44 +0100 (IST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:19:44 +0100 (IST) From: amavisd-new <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: VIRUS (HTML.Phishing.Bank-362) FROM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.3 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages amavisd-new depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii libarchive-tar-perl 1.23-1 Archive::Tar - manipulate tar file ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.14-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.34-1 Perl module for creation and manip ii libconvert-tnef-perl 0.17-4 Perl module to read TNEF files ii libconvert-uulib-perl 1.0.5.1-1 Perl interface to the uulib librar pn libdigest-md5-perl Not found. ii libmailtools-perl 1.62-1 Manipulate email in perl programs pn libmime-base64-perl Not found. ii libmime-perl 5.417-1 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m ii libnet-perl 1:1.19-1 Implementation of Internet protoco ii libnet-server-perl 0.87-3 An extensible, general perl server ii libunix-syslog-perl 0.100-4 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog( ii perl [libtime-hires-perl] 5.8.4-8sarge3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules [libnet-perl] 5.8.4-8sarge3 Core Perl modules -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]