how to fight fake email addresss?

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Fri Oct 15 10:19:27 IST 2004


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Hi

never trust the 'from' address, use ip-addresses use with the rules.

I have an s separate email gateway machine.

I set mine so email from the server (or LAN) ip-address gets virus
checked, NOT spam checked but a standard signature attached.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Jason wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I'm running an email server to serve only our own employee. So I would
> like to make some special treatment for emails coming to or going out from
> users of our server. The treatment I want to make includes spam checking,
> email splitting, and attachment filename checking.
>
>    I know rules are designed to do the job. But will MailScanner fight
> against fake email addresses? If not, people can fake our email address and
> get thru.
>
> Jason
>
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