Has anyone been able to verify this yet or are any other sources known?
-Armin
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 17:53, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> I sent this to myself from work to send here. Does anyone
> have more info on this?
>
> > I have a friend who sometimes feeds me interesting stuff.
> >
> > This one seems like something everyone using Linux needs to know
> > about. And something all IT folks should be aware of so that
> > they know that IE6 is broken, and not the other way around.
> >
> > Also, I'm very concerned about the 'hidden' emails. I'm going
> > to go see if I can get more information on that.
> >
> > >>>>> Thus spake MikEB:
> >
> > <Seen on Mot's internal news server>
> >
> > > The mail server was down for over 9 hours today. Suffice to say if
> > > you are using RedHat Seawolf with Sendmail 8.11.X you need to upgrade
> > > to 8.12.00 and enable UseMSP=Yes and set up the indirect submission
> > > methods for smmsp:smmsp. I used tcpdump and determined that IE6 will
> > > send "hidden" emails to addresses at msn.com (they appeared random). I
> > > have no idea why it is doing this, but these emails appeared to contain
> > > system level information. There was also obvious (and very nasty)
> > > packet corruption from IE6 that sendmail 8.11.X does not handle very well
> > > at all whe[n] it gets these corrupted packets.
> > >
> > > Mail server up. IE6 in the trash can. We'll try this one at a later date.
> > > Need to warn Linux users that IE6 is severely broken and can result in
> > > severe crashes on Linux systems. It also caused a W2K server to crash and
> > > blue screen as well today. My mail server was non-functional for most
> > > of the afternoon due to IE6 mail clients in the building periodically
> > > causing email flood storms on Seawolf with Sendmail 8.11.X and Linux
> > > 2.4.14.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:45:39PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > > > According to some folks who responded to this, IE6 is just plain broken. I
> > > > apologize for the lateness of responding, but my Linux server crashed with
> > > > sendmail spawing thread after thread and my /var/spool/mqueue directory
> > > > filled to bursting with corrupted mail headers. IE6 got into some kind of
> > > > braindead loop where it started flooding sendmail with tons of bogus (and
> > > > garbage) mail headers.
> > > >
> > > > It's clearly a piece of sh_t browser. This latest release qualifies as a
> > > > computer virus. It's much more destructive that lion every dreamed of
> > > > being.
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>
> > > > To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
> > > > Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:07 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Microsoft IE6 is crashing with Linux 2.4.X
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 11:35, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I have upgraded several W2K boxes to the latest IE6 packages I
> > > > > downloaded from Microsoft's website. I am seeing a behavior which
> > > > > appears to be a bug.
> > > >
> > > > Be a lot more interesting email if you included a dump of the actual
> > > > network traffic. -jwb
> >
> > *************************************************************************
> > <<rc note>>
> > The following MikEB included from an email he had just sent me
> > the day before. Seems he has become something of a prophet, eh? ;-)
> > <</rc note>>
> >
> > > As the Holy War between the Evil Empire and the rest of the universe
> > > heats up, you will see less and less of M$' stuff play nicely with
> > > anything else. With the possibility of legal sanctions fading, M$'
> > > behavior is now completely unbounded, and they are systematically using
> > > their pervasive desktop "software" to force their proprietary and co$tly
> > > "infrastructure" into any- and everywhere they can get it. In this effort,
> > > they will quickly set about breaking any interopearbility their desktop
> > > "software" might still have with any _other_ infrastructure.
> > >
> > > MikEB
> > >
> > > PS And NO ONE SHOULD USE IE, EITHER!
> > >
> > << End forwarded message
> >
> > rc
> >
> >
>
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