mouss wrote:

> Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
>>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>>> Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:amavis-user-
>>>
>>> Gary V wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I am doing some tests on a Debian machine with the Debian 2.4.2
>>>> package and the postfixadmin vacation.pl script and I noticed that
>>>> because the vacation program sends a mail out on the recipient's
>>>>       
>>> behalf
>>>     
>>>> the sender is now a penpal. If a spammer sends out more than one
>>>> message using the same sender address the second and subsequent mails
>>>> get a lower score. Just an observation. This program uses sendmail so
>>>> I personally will fix this by disabling content_filter for the pickup
>>>> service.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> an auto-responder should use "<>" as the envelope sender...
>>>     
>>
>>   

> I said auto-responder when I mean a vacation style auto-responder. see 
> below.
>> Oh, really?
>>
>> Is it stated by an RFC or is it just a commonsense practice?
>>   

> Any dedicated address may be chosen, provided some care is taken. the 
> empty sender has the advantage of being a simple choice (no need to 
> create a dedicate address) if you don't want to get bounces (which is 
> the case for vacation responders, but may not be good for other 
> responders. but these require dedicated addresses and scripts anyway).

> In any case, using the original recipient idea is the worst choice.

> See section 3.3 of
>         http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3834.txt
> for more infos.

Good idea. I will modify the supplied script.

Gary V


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