Rule to catch the "Sender address is null" errors?

Randal, Phil prandal at HEREFORDSHIRE.GOV.UK
Wed Apr 7 18:19:28 IST 2004


As long as you don't bounce them back.  The virus bounce ruleset for
spamassassin catches most of them for us.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Michael St. Laurent
> Sent: 07 April 2004 18:19
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Rule to catch the "Sender address is null" errors?
>
> You misunderstand me Phil.  My mailserver *does* accept them.
>  I'm tired of getting the bounce messages from *other* mailservers.
>
> Randal, Phil <mailto:prandal at HEREFORDSHIRE.GOV.UK> wrote:
> > See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html section 6.1.
> >
> > All mail servers must accept these, so don't bounce, just swallow
> > them.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > ----
> > Phil Randal
> > Network Engineer
> > Herefordshire Council
> > Hereford, UK
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: MailScanner mailing list
> >> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Michael
> St. Laurent
> >> Sent: 07 April 2004 17:43 To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >> Subject: Rule to catch the "Sender address is null" errors?
> >>
> >> Is there a ruleset to block those stupid "Sender address is null"
> >> responses from folks who have badly configured mail servers?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michael St. Laurent
> >> Hartwell Corporation
>
>
>
> --
> Michael St. Laurent
> Hartwell Corporation
>



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