[Mimedefang] Blocking e-mail where the To does not match the envelope To

[Justin King]

This seems like a bad idea... what if your recipient is CC or BCC? In that
case the envelope to would not match the header to.

-Justin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Kenoyer" <jonk at otsi.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:05
Subject: [Mimedefang] Blocking e-mail where the To does not match the
envelope To


> Hi we recently got a pretty nasty pornographic spam.  Below is the
> header information :
> for <otsiweb at otsiweb.com>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:39:01 -0700 (PDT)
> (envelope-from dbandeb at earthlink.com)
> To: dbandeb at earthlink.com
>
> As you can see the To does not match the actual for indicated in the
> envelope.
> Could I add a rule to discard e-mails where the To does not match the
> actual recipients.  If so could someone post a quick sample?
> Are there cases where this could block legitimate e-mails?
>
>
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