Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-07 Thread Lars Hansson
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:20:47AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > Incorrect. If a message is sent from a role address that goes to more than > one person (e.g. a mailing list's moderator alias), or if the sender of > the message has a .forward file with multiple destinations, then the > bounce may end

Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-05 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Lars Hansson wrote: > > What you can do, if your mailserver supports it, is to block email > with empty envelope sender that has multiple recipients. A valid > bounce never have more than one recipient. Incorrect. If a message is sent from a role address that goes to more than

Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-02 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* SqM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > There is no <> in the from: header. We were talking about the envelope > > sender (envelope from, Return-Path:) > > You need to be able to recieve mail where the envelope is "<>". Exactly. > Normally bounced mail's have this sender... I.e. mails from I thought AL

Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-02 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Jonathan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > hi, I just wanna ask what rule should I aply to stop mails that have in > > header from=<> . > > thanks for any (hope there will be some hehe) replys > > > > IIRC, that's a valid field.. some RFC somewhere talked about it. > I forgot which one, but I

Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-01 Thread Lars Hansson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:12:05PM -0700, Robert Menschel wrote: > 1) I've checked my corpus, 3+ months of email, and I don't find any "<>" > in any From header. Do I misunderstand the situation? MAIL FROM != From header MAIL FROM is the return path/envelope sender address and it must contain *on

Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
> hi, I just wanna ask what rule should I aply to stop mails that have in > header from=<> . > thanks for any (hope there will be some hehe) replys If you really mean mail with an empty envelope from address of <> then you must NOT block such mail, as this is the convention used by mailer daemons

Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-01 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Michal Gubik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<> > hi, I just wanna ask what rule should I aply to stop mails that > have in header from=<> . That is not a good

Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-01 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:14 PM 8/1/2003 -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > > hi, I just wanna ask what rule should I aply to stop mails that have in > header from=<> . > thanks for any (hope there will be some hehe) replys > IIRC, that's a valid field.. some RFC somewhere talked about it. I forgot which one, but I've s

Re: [SAtalk] how to stop mails with from=<>

2003-08-01 Thread Jonathan Nichols
> > hi, I just wanna ask what rule should I aply to stop mails that have in > header from=<> . > thanks for any (hope there will be some hehe) replys > IIRC, that's a valid field.. some RFC somewhere talked about it. I forgot which one, but I've seen it pop up on the Postfix list a few times. Mab