badmailfrom question
are the messages from the addresses in /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom automatically bounced or do they just go to /dev/null? I'm not aware where all those spam go. TIA -- k e c h i e "It's now safe to turn off your computer" means computing was unsafe before it appeared. -- m e
Re: badmailfrom question
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 02:57:19AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are the messages from the addresses in /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom automatically bounced or do they just go to /dev/null? The sender is rejected at the SMTP level. The sender says: MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and qmail-smtpd responds: 553 sorry, your envelope sender is in my badmailfrom list (#5.7.1) End of story. Chris
Re: badmailfrom question
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 02:57:19AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are the messages from the addresses in /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom automatically bounced or do they just go to /dev/null? The sender is rejected at the SMTP level. The sender says: MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and qmail-smtpd responds: 553 sorry, your envelope sender is in my badmailfrom list (#5.7.1) End of story. Is there anyway to have qmail use badmailfrom on the from line in the header? The spammers are forging the envelopes so the envelopes are pretty useless these days for filtering. (I've always referred to the "From " line as the envelope sender and called the "From:" line in the header the header from line.) -- Richard Shetron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the Meaning of Life? There is no meaning, It's just a consequence of complex carbon based chemistry; don't worry about it The Super 76, "Free Aspirin and Tender Sympathy", Las Vegas Strip.
Re: badmailfrom question
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 02:02:35PM -0500, Richard Shetron wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 02:57:19AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are the messages from the addresses in /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom automatically bounced or do they just go to /dev/null? The sender is rejected at the SMTP level. The sender says: MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and qmail-smtpd responds: 553 sorry, your envelope sender is in my badmailfrom list (#5.7.1) End of story. Is there anyway to have qmail use badmailfrom on the from line in the header? The spammers are forging the envelopes so the envelopes are pretty useless these days for filtering. Nope. qmail-smtpd doesn't look at the address headers. For this task you'll probably need a mail delivery agent with filtering like maildrop or procmail. Chris
Re: badmailfrom question
MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there anyway to have qmail use badmailfrom on the from line in the header? The spammers are forging the envelopes so the envelopes are pretty useless these days for filtering. The From line *is* the envelope sender, which is coming from the MAIL FROM during the smtp conversation. It is not the From: header. Mate
Re: badmailfrom question
Is there anyway to have qmail use badmailfrom on the from line in the header? The spammers are forging the envelopes so the envelopes are pretty useless these days for filtering. Nope. qmail-smtpd doesn't look at the address headers. For this task you'll probably need a mail delivery agent with filtering like maildrop or procmail. What the original post said does not make much sense: the From line *is* the envelope sender's address. Mate
Re: badmailfrom question
From: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] :What the original post said does not make much sense: the From line :*is* the envelope sender's address. No it's not. If I put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my badmailfrom, I will still get messages that you send to the qmail list. But those messages will still say: From: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] The envelope sender will be: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Adam
Re: badmailfrom question
From: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] :I do not understand what you are talking about: I am talking about :From line, not From: header. The other guy wants badmailfrom to work on the From: line. Not the From: header (i.e. the From: line in the body of the message) At least that's how I understood his question. Basically the answer is that qmail doesn't do that. I am pretty sure maildrop does though. :Mate --Adam
