Block null "from" in logs

[Stephen Swaney]

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:56 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Block null "from" in logs
> 
> On 30 Sep 2005, at 14:43, Stephen Swaney wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >> Subject: Re: Block null "from" in logs
> >>
> >> I think if you do this, you break RFC's 821, 1123, 2505, and 2821.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >
> > But your point is very valid. DO NOT DO THIS unless this unless you
> > have no
> > other choice.
> 
> Or unless you are Microsoft. They do this on all their corporate
> mail. And they publicly admit it. It is one of their chief ways of
> blocking spam.
> 
> Fortunately their staff are all so brilliant they never mistype an
> email address, as they sure won't get told when they send to non-
> existent addresses :-)
> 

For those of you who need a Microsoft education in how to handle spam (or
maybe just need a good chuckle after a long hard week) you can download the
article that Julian's referring above to from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=17DC35AD-8BA1-48B1-
91F3-563313EE878A&displaylang=en  

Download the file MessagingHygieneITVC.doc. If you don't happen to have M$
Word (or OpenOffice :) drop me a note off list.

Enjoy and have a good weekend!

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com

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