>From: Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:50:24 -0600
>
>Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > My qmail is patched with the flame patches,
><http://www.flame.org/qmail/>
> >
> > Never heard of any "flame" patches.
>
>After going and looking at these, I'd say stay far, far away from them.
>Based on the example regular expression file the author claims to use, it
>appears the author knows little about SMTP or RFC822. In Dan's words,
>something like this would "bounce a huge amount of legitimate mail and a
>moderate amount of spam".
>
>Charles
>From the Web site www.flame.org/qmail/:
>Incoming MAIL FROM: addresses are verified to be returnable by requiring an
>MX or A record for the host given.
Charles:
Is there a method to verify that the "From:" field contains a working
address before accepting the message? (I've heard of this approach
somewhere...)
Eric P.
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