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Re: one uninformed comment about 2.99.49p6 (acceptdns +)



Ambrose Li <news-misc@mingpaoxpress.com>
> Earlier (a few weeks ago), _my_ ISP (i.e., interlog.com, not uunet.ca)
> tried to do that (with Sendmail 8), but immediately got a lot of complaints
> from users.

Was that envelope sender (ie. SMTP MAIL FROM) or the From: header?

> The problem is that a lot of people now deliberately set their
> addresses to invalid addresses in an attempt to block spam. Activating
> acceptifdns (correct me if I am wrong) would block all such legitimate mail
> from reaching your site.

Since I haven't seen any mangled addresses in MAIL FROM yet, I tend to
think that Matti's feature would work well and that Interlog used the
From: header.

Please ask Interlog about it.

--Arnt