>As far as I can remember the only things I have received that had Null
>senders, aside from automated responses, were virii and spam!

I haven't heard of a single virus that uses the null sender, and only a 
very small percent of spam seems to.

Yet, if you refuse mail from null senders, you violate the RFCs, get listed 
in http://www.rfc-ignorant.org (preventing you from mailing to some mail 
servers), you won't get any bounce messages, or DSNs.

>There is no reason for the sending address not to be disclosed.

Yes, there is.  Read the RFCs, and you will see that some mail is REQUIRED 
not to have the sending address listed there.

>I will ... filter Null senders from the mail scanner.

That's your choice.  However, be aware that that will cause other 
postmasters to receive "double bounces" and deal with your problem.  They 
won't be happy about it, and may start using http://www.rfc-ignorant.org , 
blocking any E-mail you send to their domains.

Is there a reason you don't want to receive bounce messages?

                                                    -Scott
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