Re: Spam mail question - yuppers
hi ya noah
yes.. thanx for the warnings ...
have fun
alvin
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:25:40PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > and the From <> is a nuisance from some spammers is a
> > good thing to reject .... ( ie ... <> and "is spammer" )
> > - havent figured it out yet ..
>
> My point was that if you configure your mail server to reject mail
> From <> then you are in violation of several RFCs and are likely to be
> placed on the DSN blacklist at rfc-ignorant.org. Please don't do it.
>
> Now, if you're not the postmaster at your domain, and are only blocking
> it for your own personal mail (e.g. via ~/.procmailrc), then go ahead.
> But realize that if you do then you'll be filtering out legitimate
> messages from MAILER-DAEMON in addition to whatever spam you filter.
>
> noah
>
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