badmailfrom question

1999-02-23 Thread keyoz
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.

Re: badmailfrom question

1999-02-23 Thread Chris Johnson
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

Re: badmailfrom question

1999-02-23 Thread Richard Shetron
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]

Re: badmailfrom question

1999-02-23 Thread Chris Johnson
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

Re: badmailfrom question

1999-02-23 Thread Mate Wierdl
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

Re: badmailfrom question

1999-02-23 Thread Mate Wierdl
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

Re: badmailfrom question

1999-02-23 Thread Adam D. McKenna
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

Re: badmailfrom question

1999-02-23 Thread Adam D. McKenna
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