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From the SpamCop newsgroupm following is my heads-up to JT, though the real solution probably isn't his burden ...

From: "Wazoo"

To: "SpamCop Support - JT"

Subject: Fw: HTML embed tag in Date or From headers; not masked on Held Email page!

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:08:53 -0500

Wow! Excerpt of the first Tracking URL spam submittal;

To: x

Subject: Message subject

Date: <embed src="http://myhome.naver.com/mznx1234/haksa.swf">

X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.503 (Entity 5.501)

----- Original Message -----

From: "Mike"

Newsgroups: spamcop

Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:18 PM

Subject: HTML embed tag in Date or From headers; not masked on Held Email

page!

> Recently I've received several spam emails with an HTML <embed> tag in

> the Date or From header fields.  The tag is used to point to a flash

> animation on some spam server.

>

> The problem is that on the SpamCop "Held Email" page the From and Date

> headers are shown without any "de-HTML-ing" of the text.  So the actual

> Held Email page includes these HTML tags, causing my browser to download

> the flash when rendering the page!  Not good.

>

> So far all of the spam web servers have been offline because I don't

> actually get any flash displayed on the page.  However, today one of

> servers was up and serving the flash file.  It redirected the browser to

> open a spam web site.  I managed to reload the Held Email page and hit

> the Stop button before it could redirect.

>

> I queued these emails for reporting.  Here are the tracking URLs.  All

> of these have a bad Date header.  I have seen other ones (which I don't

> have tracking URLs for) that have a similar HTML tag in the From header.

>

> Hopefully the SpamCop code that creates the "Held Email" web page can be

> updated to check the headers for angle brackets and "escape" them when

> creating the page, so the browser won't try to parse this as HTML.

>

> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z787003883zbe...609cf239bf9137z

> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z787003887z53...a201a3a962a294z

> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z787003891z73...a20ca2b819a3c8z

> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z787003895z74...0ecef077082077z

>

> Mike Hall

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Is this problem happening in VER or Webmail's display of his Held Mail mailbox Folder? If it's happening in VER, please advise the OP to use his Webmail Held Mail mailbox/Folder instead. Thanks!

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