>Here's some clarification to the problem I'm having, and
>what I had to do to fix it. My actions are temporary,
>because I care more about stopping UCE than I do about the
>RFC that requires you to accept envelopes with mail from:<>

mail admins who DON'T have IMGate block nul senders because they are 
desperate.

It really is a very bad idea, and with IMGate doing its job, nul senders 
from spammers is not a problem.

>  Postfix is doing it's job in
>this situation, but it's sending a bounce message back to
>iMail with a null sender address (mail from:<>).


>  I don't know
>why postfix is doing this.

this is how bounces work, is why


>I'm sure I have a directive in my
>main.cf that's causing this, but I have yet to find it.

Such behavior is in the postfix source code in order to implement 
RFC-compatible SMTP protocol, not in your params

>Changing the directive in iMail to allow NULL senders seems
>to have fixed this problem. I don't see that as a solution,
>because I don't want to accept mail from NULL senders. Could
>someone please help me figure out why postfix doesn't give a
>valid mail from?

postfix doesn't touch the envelope sender

don't refuse nul senders at IMail or IMGate, and the deal with other problems.

Len



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