AW: [Exim] Help filtering out From:<>

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Author: Matthias Lewandowski
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To: 'Russell King'
CC: exim-users
Subject: AW: [Exim] Help filtering out From:<>


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Russell King [mailto:rmk+exim@arm.linux.org.uk]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 10. Oktober 2003 17:28
> An: usermail1
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Betreff: Re: [Exim] Help filtering out From:<>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:14:55AM -0600, usermail1 wrote:
> > I am new to Exim and am very impressed with the flexibility
> of it. My
> > network runs Sendmail server but I have set up an Exim server as a
> > gateway in order to run anti-spam/anti-virus stuff before
> it hits the
> > internal servers. We get an EXTREME amount of "Mail From: <>".
> > Probably about 2000+ an hour. These are killing the
> anti-spam software.
> > Here is what I would like to do. I would like to tell Exim
> that if it
> > sees "Mail From: <>", to just pass it on to the next hop
> and not bother
> > with scanning it.
>
> If you block "MAIL FROM:<>" you will be preventing bounce
> messages being
> returned to your system. Also those of us who verify the validity of
> addresses won't be able to verify them on your system, so we
> won't accept
> your mail.
>
> IOW, never, ever block MAIL FROM:<>.
>
> --
> Russell King (rmk@???)


I think, he doesn't want to drop them, simply
bypass the scanner to safe his resources...


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Matthias Lewandowski
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