I missunderstood Steve's prior question.  If the email comes from a 
non-existant domain (that is one that isn't registered with a registrar) then 
you can filter this at the MTA level.  In postfix the setting is 
"reject_unknown_sender_domain".  Your MTA might vary.
 
This doesn't depend upon a www or any other name actually pointing to a server. 
 The existance of the domain with the registrar and an MX record qualifies it 
as a valid domain.
 
My opinion is that you should drop this at the MTA level as only spammers of 
people with really badly configured emails servers do not send email with a 
fully qualified and valid domain.  But that's my $0.02.
 
Gary Smith

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From: Colin A. Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 3/28/2004 8:32 AM
To: Steve Prior; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Received: from a domain without a website?



Steve Prior Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 11:26 AM

> Has anyone experimented with checking the spaminess of emails
> with a top Received: header which specifies a domain which does not have
> a website reachable with only www.domain.domainTLD?

I have several clients for which we host email but no website. Not even a
placeholder one.

cheers,
Colin

Colin A. Bartlett
Kinetic Web Solutions
www.kineticweb.biz



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