Re: [Exim] Filter vs. <> (empty sender)

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Author: Christian Balzer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Filter vs. <> (empty sender)
To answer my own question, it was the

if error_message then finish endif

line in my filter. Now while supposedly a null sender does indeed
constitute an error message the amount of spamware that uses this
method to bypass some filters is too big to be ignored. A mention
in the documentation of this behavior would be nice.

Also, since this is in the context of a filter transport, a "fail"
will not work, as the messages gets frozen and when thawed will
be delivered (provided you have the filter doing first_delivery
filtering only). So dropping it was the best solution.

Dewa,

<CB>
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