On 1/04/2004 at 02:22:59, Chris Langsenkamp wrote:

> Disabling NUL Sender for us stops a lot more junk than it does
> actual bounces, because it seems that most delivery failures are
> identified during the attempt, not after the fact by some return
> message (there are exceptions for a few systems that will accept
> virtually anything and then call back later...gateways maybe? AOL?).

And almost everyone running Exchange.

> Personally, I feel that if a system fully accepted a message, then
> wants to generate a new message back later, it should identify
> itself as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some such thing.  I'm sure
> there was a time in history when NUL sender could be trusted to be
> legitimate, but facing the onslaught of spam today, it just doesn't
> seem viable any longer.

How were you planning to prevent infinite loops? Your server sends me
a bounce, mine sends your [EMAIL PROTECTED] a bounce for that
message, yours sends mine a bounce for that one, mine sends yours a
bounce for that one...

And how would it help anyway? You'll just be asking for a box called
"Disable postmaster@ sender". :)

Cheers,
Evan


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