Milter-greylist

Am Donnerstag Mai 15 2008 16:00 schrieb Benoit Branciard:
> attila.bruncsak@... a écrit :
> >> - /@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...

may be I am missing something, but why would you want to whitelist spammers 
that don't comply to the standard? 
Isn't it that legitimate(!) mails form gmail.com always would 
have "gmail.com>" in their envelope-from?

Juergen