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Re: [milter-greylist] New IPs of Google mail

2008-05-15 by Benoit Branciard

attila.bruncsak@... a \ufffdcrit :
>> - /@gmail\.com$/ means "any address ending with "@...". In 
>> milter-greylist this would never match, since all envelope 
>> FROMs always 
>> end with ">".
>>
> 
> Do the spammers know that they must comply to the standard?
> I already seen e-mail addresses in the envelop without opening "<" and closing ">".
> Unfortunately the sendmail happily accepts it.
> Since that time I always use like:
> /@gmail\.com[ 	>]*$/
> (Please note, there are a tab and a space in addition to the ">" in the brackets.)
> 

You're right, I just verified Sendmail accepts envelope FROM's and 
RCPT's without angle brackets, and they are transmitted as-is to 
milter-greylist. So your regexp seems the right way to go...

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