On 03/30/2014 01:25 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: > > while i agree that it is a bad idea to take headers into account
I wouldn't say that, it depends on exactly what you're doing and how much you're basing your decision to reject on that single piece of data. > as well as Barracuda networks started to do the same with their > last firmware and so the spoofing protection kills *any* mailing > list What barracuda did was different, they used a policy list for deep inspection of Recipient headers and rejected based on that which caused problems because a policy list is only supposed to be checked against the client connecting directly to your MX, not every IP in the Recipient list. > you missed "contains some non-existent user @ our local domain" I was mainly basing my comment on the subject, "Can I reject when sender doesn't appear in from: header?" > however, mail is about SMTP and SMTP is about envelopes I wouldn't exactly say that either, and don't feel the need to go into all the different levels that statement fails in. Peter
