Re: [exim] Checking the "local_part" of a Sender

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Author: Duane Hill
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Checking the "local_part" of a Sender
On Saturday, August 04, 2012 at 02:19:05 UTC, spraker@??? confabulated:

> Hello all,


> I know that you can check the "local_part" of a recipient, but how can you check this for a sender?


> In essence, there seems to be a lot of spam e-mail coming in. They
> all have the same "local_part" but the domain name is different.


> So it would be nice if there is a way to block this.


> I've seen where people setup something like:


> deny
> senders = sender@*


> Where a wildcard is used.


> But, I have a MySQL database that is setup for checking sender
> addresses. This means it has to be an exact match.


> Is there already a variable that is used to hold the "local_part"
> of a sender? I've done a lot of digging and am unable to find one.


From an answer posted to a question on this list a couple days ago:

$sender_address_local_part

See http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html

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