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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: Jan-Peter Koopmann, Exim User's Mailing List
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Subject: RE: [exim] Is there and logical reason to reject mail from: <> ?


--On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:50 pm +0200 Jan-Peter Koopmann
<Jan-Peter.Koopmann@???> wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:38 PM Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
>>> 2. same goes for mails from postmaster@*.
>>
>> Really, so if I write to you from my postmaster address, you'd reject
>> that?
>
> Correct. Together with an error message explaining that we only certain
> mails from postmaster and that the mail will definately be accepted if
> you choose a different sender. Looking through my logs I only see one
> occurance of this happening the last month though so I will probably
> only restrict <> mails in the near future.
>
> Regards,
> JP


So, you're happy to throw away email from people that are likely to be
emailing you about problems with your email service?


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Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS