Re: Reject mails based on headers (comparing envelop mailfrom and body from)

2013-05-07 Thread Abhijeet Rastogi
Hi Tom, It feels like this is for a lot more features than what's needed. I am new to this and will definitely give it a read. Thanks for this. For the time being, can you point me to the right doc so that I can quickly implement this. (Few pointers would be awesome) I had a look at http://www.t

Re: Reject mails based on headers (comparing envelop mailfrom and body from)

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Hendrikx
Hi Abhijeet, you might be interested in DMARC, a relatively new technique that tries to do what you want: attach validation rules based on the From header. See dmarc.org for details. Tom On 05/07/2013 05:06 PM, Abhijeet Rastogi wrote: > Hi Noel, > > Thanks for your reply. I already have spam

Re: Reject mails based on headers (comparing envelop mailfrom and body from)

2013-05-07 Thread Abhijeet Rastogi
Hi Noel, Thanks for your reply. I already have spamhous and clamav in my setup. But, still mails are being passed through it. I completely understand that it's a very legit way of sending mail. It's done *everywhere*. But, really want to restrict all this as ignorant people are getting mails fro

Re: Reject mails based on headers (comparing envelop mailfrom and body from)

2013-05-07 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/7/2013 8:54 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi wrote: > Hi all, > > So, I've a condition where people send mails to my domain with with > fake "From:" header in the body of mail (which Thunderbird or any MUA > shows while reading the mail). > > This is actually an authentic way of sending mail if the user

Reject mails based on headers (comparing envelop mailfrom and body from)

2013-05-07 Thread Abhijeet Rastogi
Hi all, So, I've a condition where people send mails to my domain with with fake "From:" header in the body of mail (which Thunderbird or any MUA shows while reading the mail). This is actually an authentic way of sending mail if the user that's sending mail has proper authority over the email th