Bouncing messages with missing From: info

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Mon Apr 15 16:17:11 IST 2013


NDRs are not supposed to have info in the From field according to RFC. That
prevents emails bouncing around until the end of time.

So, are these NDRs to real users? If not, you can use recipient
verification.

References:

tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834

tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822

tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321

tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6522


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote:

> I am using MailScanner 4.84.5 with postfix. I have one relay domain
> getting hit hard by  non delivery notices which are missing any info in
> the "From" field.
>
> Is there a rule I can add to postfix that will bounce messages like this?
>
>
> Raymond
> --
> MailScanner mailing list
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
>
> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
>
> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>



-- 

--
Jerry Benton
Mailborder Systems
www.mailborder.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/attachments/20130415/b6d93245/attachment.html 


More information about the MailScanner mailing list