On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:11:27AM +1200, Simon Lyall wrote:
From: Promos(a)Glengarry Wines
That's a header. What was the envelope-sender/return-path? My guess is since most NZ ISPs with any level of clue reject email from bogus senders, the sender-envelope was sane or that Glengarry will realize they made a mistake and correct it. In general this applies to anyone sending email with a bogus sender-envelope; so many places will reject this that the problem is rare and tends to be corrected early.
Our spam filtering also has a "No MX for From address" rules that helps block those. Still if you feel comfortable blocking customer's email on that basis I guess it's your choice.
What legitimate email? One incidence of a 'maybe' from Glengarry which they would presumably have fixed if it really is a mistake... I guess I'm missing something here ... but it seems to me like you could avoid the mailwasher and load problems you are seeing in about half the amount of effort it takes to bitch on nznog about it. --cw - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog