E-mail bug (spam exploit)

[levien@cc.gatech.edu (Levien de Braal)]

Hello folks,

I found the following 'gem' in my inbox, by a spammer. If one sends
a message with the following from line:

  From $ Financial Prosperity $@prosper.com  Wed Oct 21 00:01:44 1998
(note the $'s around the user name)

the message will be considered by elm as part of the message before it.
So, it looks as if someone else attached spam to their message to you.

Can someone check if MUTT has the same behaviour?

I'm hoping this isn't the latest general method of delivering spam to
one's mailbox.

Levien
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