Author: luomat(_at_)peak(_dot_)org (Timothy J. Luoma)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:06:52 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199707180306(_dot_)XAA12314(_at_)kira(_dot_)peak(_dot_)org>
Now: if I config sendmail on MY machine to reject mail from certain SPAM
domains, will it check the 'From:' line or the 'From ' line? Can I tell it
to check other lines for spam domains (such as the Message-ID line or other
X-header lines? If it checks the 'From ' line all the messages will appear
to be coming from me @ my isp account, which I do not want.
The answer (from my preliminary testing) seems to be that sendmail checks
only the 'From ' line, not the 'From:' line.
There are good arguments for NOT preserving the 'From ' line, but this, in
my case, is a good argumetn FOR keeping it. Blocking spammers and spamsites
at the source before it even gets to procmail.
However, since it only checks the 'From ' which may have bogus info, and
does not check the other header lines, I may still end up using procmail, so
this might note even be necessary.
TjL