Subject: Re: Sendmail and licensing (fwd)
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/29/1998 18:29:21
> I ran my own and later Claus's Assman's *.mc stuff on 8.8.X. Under
> 8.8.8 you can't filter on (internal) header data. Thats a *very* big
> lose. Check your spam sometime and see how many realy easy kills you
> get by filtering on any of the following headers:
> To: friend@public.com
> X-UIDL: *
> X-PMFLAGS: *
> X-COMMENTS: Authenticated sender is *
> DATE: x________*
> X-MAILER: <one of several spam mailers>
Can sendmail 8.9.0 reject mail due to non-envelope headers before receiving
the entire message? It's not too hard to set up procmail filtering to nail
these (I nail these and a few others), but that's after inhaling the whole
message. (It also requires a fork and exec, but procmail will also do local
delivery, so it's no worse for real mail.)