[Simh] Mark's mailbox full

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It might be helpul to post this to comp.os.vms too, since new development
on VMS is in the works and security is high on their list of things to work
on.


On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:06:06 +0000
"Armistead, Jason          BIS" <Jason.Armistead at otis.com> wrote:

> I actually find it interesting how much it reveals about the target
> e-mail and account configuration
> 
> We know he's running VMS
> We know he has a disk called $DISK3:
> We know his user space is under $DISK3:[MARK]
> And we know we've successfully filled his disk, thus denying some level
> of service and system functionality
> 
> In this era of hackers that feed off this sort of exposed data, I doubt
> any modern mail server would be game to post back so much
> configuration-specific information that could be used to aid in a
> targeted hacking attack.
> 
> Cheers
> Jason A
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Alan
> Frisbie Sent: Friday, 7 August 2015 7:33 PM
> To: SIMH at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: [Simh] Mark's mailbox full
> 
> If anyone know how to get in touch with Mark Pizzolato outside of email,
> please let him know that he has a disk allocation failure:
> 
> > This is a report on the delivery status of your message.
> > 
> >   Message-ID:  <15080716022951_44C at slug.flying-disk.com>
> >   Subject:     Re: [Simh] Problem with default builds
> > 
> >   --Failed delivery to:
> >   Address: MARK+SIMH
> >   Status:  error writing !AS
> > 
> > Reporting-MTA: dns;infocomm.com
> > Arrival-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 15:25:38 -0700
> > 
> > Final-Recipient: x-local;MARK+SIMH
> > Action: failed
> > Status: 5.2.0 (Other or undefined mailbox status)
> > Diagnostic-Code: x-local;error writing !AS  %MAIL-W-WRITEERR, error 
> > writing $DISK3:[MARK.MAIL]MAIL.MAI  -RMS-F-FUL, device full 
> > (insufficient space for allocation)
> > Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 15:25:40 -0700
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan Frisbie
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