Re: [exim] anti-spam... what's next?

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:40:53PM +0000, Adam Stephens wrote:
> Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 17:52 +0000, Adam Stephens wrote:
> >
> >> I certainly wouldn't block on it outright like this. We see forwarded
> >> mail with hotmail senders, and mailing list mail, and mail from ebay's
> >> mail servers, and apparently legitimate mail sent via other ISPs, all of
> >> which would be rejected by this rule.
> >>
> >
> > the test checks the envelope sender, not the headers of the e-mail. you
> > won't get false positives from mailing lists, forwarded e-mail or eBay
> > with that rule.
> >
> >
> My logs say otherwise.

This works really well for me. My situation obviously may differ from
other peoples, Im not an isp and can put the greater interests of my small
userbase above the need to avoid a potentially miniscule number of false
positives.

YMMV etc.

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Pete