Werner Fleck wrote:
I have changed the plugin so that it, in addition to "<>" as the sender of bounces, fires when the user part of the envelope sender is "MAILER-DAEMON". This might not be RFC conforming, but since I get a lot of these I am blocking them.

During a recent misdirected bounces flood (about 20,000 bounces) I collected additional non-conforming bounce senders:

       @bounces.spamarrest.com>
       <MAILER-DAEMON@             (case insensitive!)
       <Symantec_
       <admin@                     (case insensitive!)
       <admin_scm@
       <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
       <postmaster@                (case insensitive!)

'From' address that sends verification requests:

       <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

And finally, some (probably home-grown) MTAs show no predictable behavior except the 'Subject' line (case insensitive!):

       ^delivery status notification
       ^failure notice


Filtering all these may be a bit aggressive, but if you provide an error message that explains why the message is rejected, legitimate senders can try to work around the block.

Hans

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