On 06/17/2015 09:00 AM, Michael Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I understand that postfix send bounces or failed delivered notifications
> using empty sender.
> 
> But does postfix accept empty sender emails during the MAIL FROM command
> during the SMTP conversation? because i think that postfix needs a valid
> email address ?
Null sender "<>" is a valid address

> 
> if postfix reject empty sender emails during receiving of emails, so how
> come bounces and failed delivered notices are received from other email
> servers ?
You would have to force Postfix to do so, but that would affect all you
described, so it doesn't sound like a good idea

> 
> The reason i am asking for that in order to block some spam attacks on our
> email mail server that using empty email senders
That would require some analysis of common attributes of such spam in
order to choose the most effective approach

> 
> Thank you
> 
> Peter Michael
> 
Tomas

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