Re: [Exim] filter out mails with empty from ? how?

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: Exim-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Exim] filter out mails with empty from ? how?
On 2004-07-17 Lars Schimmer <schimmer@???> wrote:
> I still have the problem with my acl.
> I use
> accept hosts = :


> And I think this even accept ALL bounces and all messages withj an
> empty from: field.

[...]

No, it won't. There is no relation between the hosts condition and the
return-path.

Quoting spec.txt:
|
|      accept  hosts = :

|
| This ACL statement accepts the recipient if the sending host matches
| the list. But what does that strange list mean? It doesn't actually
| contain any host names or IP addresses. The presence of the colon puts
| an empty item in the list; Exim matches this only if the incoming
| message didn't come from a remote host. The colon is important. Without
| it, the list itself is empty, and can never match anything.

           cu andreas
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