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Re: [milter-greylist] Patch: Delay reject until after DATA phase if sender is null (was: Re: Null Sender)

2005-01-11 by Matthias Scheler

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:05:57AM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > 1.) Host "mail.a.com" hast an alias "foobar@..." which contains "1@..."
> >     and "2@...".
> > 
> > 2.) Host "mail.a.com" send an e-mail to "non@..." which bounces
> >     with "foobar@..." as the sender.
> > 
> > 3.) Host "mail.a.com" delivers the bounce to "foobar@...", expands it
> >     to "1@..." and "2@..." and tries to deliver that to "mail.b.com".
> So, would it be a problem to greylist the DSN if 1@... asked for
> greylisting and not 2@...?

No. In step 3 the mailer on "mail.a.com" will deliver an e-mail with a null
sender address to two people on "mail.b.com" which IIUC is what the
discussion was about.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/

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