Question about a large volumn of errors I've been getting.

From: Dragoncrest (dragoncrest_at_voyager.net)
Date: 06/05/03

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            Just a curiousity question actually. Cause so far I haven't had any
    issues that I can see. What's basically happened is in my daily reports
    I've been seeing a lot of these types of messages:

    Jun 4 03:10:21 sendmail[76254]: h543AIjS076253: Fixed MIME
    Content-Disposition header field (possible attack)

            I know it's not an attack because the machine is tucked comfortably behind
    a firewall and sendmail is only available through localhost. Mail is
    delivered to that box from external pop accounts via fetchmail. One thing
    I have noticed a lot of lately is spam. It has increased at least a good
    3-4x's what it was. Spam assassin has been doing an awesome job of weeding
    it all out, but it has just been coming in droves and it's more like a
    small tidalwave now. So, I was wondering if this was just related to the
    spam or if there's something else I should be looking into? Like maybe
    fetchmail got borked or something. So far everything seems to be running
    fine. I just found this curious is all. Thanks for the info.

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