Re: [Exim] Forged addresses from virus detectors

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Author: Greg Ward
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Forged addresses from virus detectors
On 05 June 2002, Patrice Fournier said:
> Hmmm.. Could have it been your server which qualified an address of
> <postmaster> to <postmaster@???>? Multiple pieces of stupidware
> using an unqualified address is probably more probable than qualifying
> such an address with the recipient domain. Still a wrongly configured
> software though.


Sounds believable, but:

% nc mail.python.org 25
220 mail.python.org ESMTP Exim 4.02 Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:23:32 -0400
mail from:<postmaster>
501 <postmaster>: sender address must contain a domain

Offhand, I don't even recall how to configure it so that's accepted.
Not sure I want to know.

        Greg