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Author: Tony Finch
Date:  
To: Catherine Morrisroe
CC: exim-users
Subject: RE: [SPAM] - Re: [exim] How to deal with '<>' mails - Bayesian Filter detected spam
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Catherine Morrisroe wrote:
>
> I am trying to get it to check for the null sender address and then do
> the verify on the recipient but I just can't get it to work, its failing
> on the check for the null sender address and not getting as far as the
> verify.


The start of the section about "address lists" in the spec explains the
pertinent point:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch10.html#SECTaddresslist

> Address lists contain patterns that are matched against mail addresses.
> There is one special case to be considered: the sender address of a
> bounce message is always empty. You can test for this by providing an
> empty item in an address list. For example, you can set up a router to
> process bounce messages by using this option setting:
>
>    senders = :

>
> The presence of the colon creates an empty item. If you do not provide
> any data, the list is empty and matches nothing. The empty sender can
> also be detected by a regular expression that matches an empty string,
> and by a query-style lookup that succeeds when $sender_address is empty.


The actual check we have in our configuration is:

# Require valid recipient addresses on bounce messages.

  deny
    senders        = :
  ! verify         = recipient/callout=CALLTIME


The CALLTIME macro is defined with:

  # standard callout timeouts
  #
  CALLTIME    = 4m,maxwait=4m,connect=30s


Tony.
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