[antispam-f] Re: Broken pipe in lists
- From: Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:53:15 GMT
In a recent message Chris Johnson <madoka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 30 Dec, Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> My original problem arose with an AOL addy when the Received: shows
>> "Received: from imo-d03.mx.aol.com ..." there the '.mx.' has nothing
>> to do with the TLD .mx , there may also be other TLDs with a similar
>> trap. Using '.mx (' ensures that you are looking at the TLD. Part of
>> my difficulty was because I was just learning how to use the 'List'
>> facility.
>
> The problem, as I see it, is that it gets difficult to kill off something
> like that. If you can be sure that yo will never get anything legitimate
> from "mx.aol.com", then a trap such as
>
> Delete Received: = *.mx.aol.com*
>
> would kill it off (I'd be more inclined to use Defer here than Delete
> until I was sure about what was coming through).
>
But I didn't want to kill it. Part of the problem was that my Accept
From: had an incorrect addy. There is no excuse for that :-(
--
Dave
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