> | forward "$LOCAL"@bigbang.af.mil
> I will think of a better fix in a couple of days, hints are
> welcome. My first urge was to just have it bounce everything with a
> % in it,
First answer: so long as you're not relaying spam, there's no reason
to worry about being in ORBS since almost nobody uses it. Alan listed
me for spite a couple of times, the amount of mail that bounced as a
result was infinitesimal, two messages out of many thousands, other
than to my anti-spam fanatic pals on my spamtools list.
Second answer: tell your friends who run sendmail to fig their config
to turn off the percent hack, since it's a security hole there whether
or not the mail is relayed from your host. The fixes are well known,
see www.sendmail.org for links.
Third answer: if your sendmail manager isn't up to the task of
managing sendmail (most aren't), it's really easy to add a little bit
to your .qmail to bounce mail with addresses that are likely to
provoke sendmail bugs:
(put this on one line, of course)
| case "$LOCAL" in
'*[%"@]*') bouncesaying 'Go away,' ;;
*) forward "$LOCAL"@bigbang.af.mil ;; esac
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