On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Daniel Rogers wrote: > > It seems I've been getting a lot of spam lately that has a valid MX, > > but the MX is 127.0.0.1 (loopback). Any chance we could add a test for > > this? > > That will break a large number of legitimate uses of email forwarding, > notably mine.[1]
No it won't. :-) > I use the Unix fetchmail(1) command to collect email from a number of > IMAP and POP3 accounts around the Internet, some directly and some > through various secure tunnels. > > It picks up this email, adds a recieved line for itself, then forwards > the email to 127.0.0.1:25 via SMTP. > > This means that *every* piece of email I read on my laptop would match > this test. Nah. You are forwarding your mail to localhost, sure - but you aren't doing an MX lookup on the From address of messages to figure out where to send it. This test wouldn't hurt you ... the From addresses in your messages aren't changed. And those are what the test looks at - it looks up the MX records of the From: address. Fetchmail doesn't care about the MX of From: addresses ... -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
