[Simh] Mark's mailbox full

Stafford Winters stafford.winters at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 19:26:02 EDT 2015


Consider that it possible that disk quotas have been applied and/or 
$DISK3 could be a logical disk with a small size to avoid impacting 
services.  In fact, Mark may only use that username for email.

On 8/10/2015 8:06 AM, Armistead, Jason BIS 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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