[BUGS] trapping spam from headers

[Andrew Reilly]

Hi Jonathan,

I think that you're barking up the wrong tree, here.  login.access  
has nothing to do with the contents of SMTP headers: you third  
parties don't have to log in to send you e-mail (although these days  
it might be the case that *you* have to log in (with SMTP AUTH) to  
send e-mail.)

The mechanisms for keeping mail "out of the system" generally rely on  
IP-address black-lists, which the SMTP server consults before  
accepting the connection.  These don't look at the headers at all.

Cheers,

On 05/03/2008, at 00:26, jonathan michaels wrote:

> given that most if not all of this information is 'manufactured'
> by the sender .. so it is possible to use something like
> /etc/login.access to keep this sort of stuff out of teh system.

Andrew