Christopher Meadors wrote: >> When I set up BATV on my own system I was ultra-paranoid and concerned >> that legitimate queries against my server to check the validity of email >> addresses might be broken by it. >> >> So what I did was to restrict emails from null senders to having only >> one recipient (defer further RCPT TO's), which is almost always the >> case. Then I perform the BATV check in the predata ACL. That way other >> peoples callouts aren't affected by BATV checks. > > Which is the same way I've done in the past. > > Now, what is troubling me is the recent mention of vacation messages. > It seems that they'll be sent with a null sender, but to the header > FROM:, not the envelope sender. That means they'll fail the BATV > checks.
That does seem a little strange. Personally, I don't see it as a problem if I don't receive vacation messages. In the ten years I've been using email I've not received a vacation message that I couldn't have lived without. Mike -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
