Re: faked from addresses getting through to my lists

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:43:27AM -0500, Terry Todd wrote:

>"Senders Name" <[email protected]> 192.168.1.1 (comment)
>so it checks for not only email address but senders name and IP address
>as well.  
>With those 3 checks in place it would be pretty darn hard for a
>spammer to fake it I would think.

But this would prevent legitimate mail from being sent - certainly I
send mail from more than one IP address and smarthost. And sender names
often do get faked.

Putting in a call to spamassassin or similar in the rc.local files
should probably deal with most of the problems.

Roger