[ On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 10:58:58 (-0400), David Brodbeck wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [exim] Is there and logical reason to reject mail from: <> ?
>
> Personally, on some of my domains I reject mail from <> to several addresses
> that never send mail, including postmaster. Postmaster is just an alias to
> another account, so I never send mail with postmaster as the return address.
> Why should I accept bounces to it?
Well in the case of <postmaster> the whole goal of the address is to
facilitate remote support and debugging and it's one hell of a lot
easier to type "<>" when manually testing SMTP connections than it is to
type something long but legitimate in there.
Also, keep in mind that there's no reason why the envelope sender
address can't be set to <postmaster@???>. You don't have to
send messages from a "postmaster" account just to have that happen.
Don't confuse the problems of sender address forgery with the issues of
supporting a decent and proper <postmaster> mailbox. I.e. don't cut of
your nose just to spite your face.
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Greg A. Woods
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