Carlos E. R. wrote:

>> I see a lot of regular servers announcing themselves as "mail.intranet" or
>> "exchange.local" and the like.
> 
> Well, what I'm bothered is receiving email from my ISP boxes with false 
> envelope from.I don't understand why they don't check it. My postfix 
> doesn't accept it, so fetchmail leaves it there - but it doesn't delete 
> them either: a dns failure can be temporary, so mail is not rejected 
> finally, but given a "try later". That's how it should be, but... it means 
> I have to go and delete them manually from the boxes. I might be better 
> off by accepting them and letting spamassassin take care of those...

Policy decision. In our company I also use "reject_unknown_sender_domain",
but I doubt that I would use it on an ISP mailserver. The best case would
be to offer several classes of anti-spam measures and let the customer
decide which one to choose.

-- 
Sandy

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