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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell King" <rmk+exim@???>
To: "usermail1" <usermail1@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: 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:<>.



I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, it would be breaking the RFC to dump it.
I would like for the message to be sent on to the internal servers without
scanning for spam. In other words, If I get a match for "MAIL FROM:<>", how
can I tell it to go directly to remote_smtp.


Thank you,

Brian