I think envelope checking is best left to the MTA and not delegated to SpamAssassin, which isn't designed for such things.
C on 2/1/02 9:45 AM, Bill Becker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, peter green wrote: > >> What is the purpose of the NO_MX_FOR_FROM test? It can check for a forged >> from, true... but wouldn't it make as much (or more) sense to test the >> envelope sender for MX, since that's where bounces might go? > > The envelope domain in a spam is usually forged, but it will still be a > real domain name. If a spammer used a non-existant domain in the > envelope, he couldn't spam AOL. Also he couldn't spam anyone running a > reasonably current version of Sendmail. Those spams would be rejected > during SMTP instead of being handed to SA. > > Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
