Blocking empty To with rules

[S Mohan]

Would it not be better to change outgoing queue directory to /dev/null
for such mails. What would happen if I set incoming directory to
/dev/null? Will MailScanner try to read from /dev/null to scan or will
it just drop them? Why waste resources scanning when we want to drop
them off the cliff anyway?

Mohan

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 4:08 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Blocking empty To with rules


At 16:06 14/02/2003, you wrote:
>Is it possible to block a spam message where the To is empty?  We are
>getting a ton of spam from AOL and in the sendmail logfile the To is
>blank. I wouldn't mind shutting AOL down from having access to our
>server but I'm sure our customers would complain :)

In a ruleset you can specify arbitrary regular expressions, which is
perfect for this. You could write a ruleset for the "Is Definitely Spam"
parameter that contains the line
To:     /^$/    yes
which would say that all mail with no To address is spam.
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