Re: [Exim] MAIL FROM:<>

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Robert Lister wrote:

> is it better just to sink the resulting frozen failed bounce messages
> in the bit bucket and not worry about this?

i'd opt (in fact i have opted) for this one. every once in a while
someone yells about not getting notifications of typo'ed addresses,
and stuff that generally create bounces; and then i just tell them to
talk to their postmaster. sometimes it's a pita, but even the most
tough clients can be convinced if you have a sufficiently strong
throat :)

more seriously, i don't see a way out of this other than the one
described above. there always just has to be something that indicates
that the subsequent message is going to be a bounce - currently, this
is the empty 'mail from'. if you change it to anything else, spammers
will adapt to that, and you're back at where you started from.

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