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Re: [suse-security] yay. the bots have the list again.
- From: Lars Ellenberg <l.g.e@xxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:20:00 +0200
- Message-id: <eEDAqVmrHSZ31mnrIDtjOG0=lge@xxxxxx>
/ 2004-10-21 15:04:20 +0200
\ Carlos E. R.:
>
> The Thursday 2004-10-21 at 17:49 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>
> > > but some nonsense address (please really use an invalid toplevel domain,
> > > not just a made-up address, which actually may exists!)
> >
> > I've seen one mail server which dumps all mails with a non-existant
> > From: domain to /dev/null without notification, and that's none too
> > silly. You'll find out if your posts are blackholed. Just make sure the
> > address you use doesn't exist.
>
>
> The normal thing is to simply reject any email with non-existant "From"
> domain address. Time ago, SuSE distros configured sendmail that way; I
> haven't checked about postfix.
um. we still talk about the difference of Envelope and Header from?
of course, non-existent _Envelope_ From should be rejected.
lge
\ Carlos E. R.:
>
> The Thursday 2004-10-21 at 17:49 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>
> > > but some nonsense address (please really use an invalid toplevel domain,
> > > not just a made-up address, which actually may exists!)
> >
> > I've seen one mail server which dumps all mails with a non-existant
> > From: domain to /dev/null without notification, and that's none too
> > silly. You'll find out if your posts are blackholed. Just make sure the
> > address you use doesn't exist.
>
>
> The normal thing is to simply reject any email with non-existant "From"
> domain address. Time ago, SuSE distros configured sendmail that way; I
> haven't checked about postfix.
um. we still talk about the difference of Envelope and Header from?
of course, non-existent _Envelope_ From should be rejected.
lge
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