On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 14:32 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* rahlqu...@gmail.com <rahlqu...@gmail.com>:
Ok regex is not my strong suit by any means. Trying to get a match
for email addresses that start with a pipe character ( about 15% of
my spam is this ).
That's not needed. Why are you accepting mail to NON-EXISTING
recipients at all?
{snip}
He's generating throwaway addresses to find out who's selling these
contact addresses.
In that case, depending on the MTA logging, perhaps he could still disable
catchall and then troll the logs to see which invalid addresses were
attempted.
...or does _no_ modern MTA log the recipient addresses it rejects? I
haven't actually looked... :)
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