[Mimedefang] sender: <>

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 17.08.2004 schrieb Jurgen Botz um 1:23:

> I'm seeing lots of probes for (usually non-existent) usernames
> with "MAIL FROM: <>".  At first I thought maybe I should just
> drop those... but then reading the list I saw that apparently
> md_check_against_smpt_server does that.  So maybe all these
> probes I'm seeing are from mimedefang sites that are getting
> spammed by someone who is forging my domain?

It is not only MimeDefang with the feature to test for valid sender
addresses. I am using milter-sender which does that and Postfix has that
feature build in.

>  From a standards perspective, it sender '<>' legit?

Yes.

http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-dsn.php

> :j

Alexander


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