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Author: Douglas Gray Stephens
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To: exim-users
CC: Paul Overell
Subject: Re: [Exim] Empty sender <>
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Paul,

At 15:14 on 14-March-2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Paul Overell wrote:
>
> > I can't help on how to do this, but an empty sender <> is legitimate for
> > Delivery Status Notifications (RFC1894) and for Message Disposition
> > Notifications (RFC2298). So you might want to consider making these a
> > special case.
>
> It's also been the standard for plain ol' bounce messages for a long
> time. See RFC 2821 for the latest statement of this.


In the system_filter.exim file I include
  if $return_path is ""
  then
    seen finish
  endif


before each of the
fail text ..........
statements. This stops the virus infected mail being returned to the
local postmaster address when there is no valid return address.

I have attached my current system_filter.exim, which has these added
lines as a gzip'ed file (so that the exim filters do not trip on the
occurrences of the various strings).


Douglas.

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