So, I've been filing all mailer-daemon addresses, and found that some
meathead chose to use mail(_at_)somedomain as his address.
My question - less specifically related to procmail (other than the fact
that the procmail regexp sees the address as a daemon) than general mail
handling, is "should people be discouraged from using such an address in a
non-daemon role?"
My belief is that the address should be relegated to daemon use (or at
least, a mail authority role). Too many mail filtering recipes have rules
in them for "if not from daemon," since daemon messages are often bounces
and delayed delivery notifications.
I refuse to make any special cases for this one person's (IMHO) ill-chosen
address. His messages will continue to filter out as a daemon message
until he changes his address.
Thoughts?
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Post Box 2395 / San Rafael, CA 94912-2395