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Date:      Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:54:49 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        "Mustafa N. Deeb" <mustafa@palnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: deny this
Message-ID:  <20010709115449.B22785@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <NFBBLOKOKLMCPPGHKAAAAECPGIAA.mustafa@palnet.com>; from mustafa@palnet.com on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:54:01AM %2B0200
References:  <NFBBLOKOKLMCPPGHKAAAAECPGIAA.mustafa@palnet.com>

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On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:54:01AM +0200, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote:
> how can I tell sendmail to deny this
> 
> >>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=1926
> 250 <>... Sender ok

You shouldn't!
An empty envelope sender is used in bounced mails and blocking would
reject all error informations.
It is empty because it doesn't make sense to rebounce it if the
original sender isn't addressable too.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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