Re: Need help solving a Sender/From address dilemma

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:33:23 am Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
> On 04/26/2010 02:06 PM, Russell Robinson wrote:
> > The return-path is a random valid email address, which has nothing to do
> > with amazon.com.
>
> but i'd wager that if you look at the headers of that message, you'll
> see it was sent from a non-Amazon mail server. that's how you tell the
> legitimate messages apart from the forgeries. it's something your MTA
> can decipher; it can compare the return-path address with the server
> that is trying to send the message to you. real amazon.com email will be
> sent from an *.amazon.com server. the same is true for other large sites
> like gmail, hotmail, AOL, etc. i've been doing this for years under
> Postifx using a method similar to this:
>
> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5056088.html
>
> i'm sure Exim can do the same, so i'd do some googling on that subject
> or inquire within the Exim forums about how.

Yes, that makes sense and I'm pretty sure I already know how to do this with 
exim.

I was hoping for a generic automated solution - but I guess some things (like 
this) cannot be automated.

-- 
Russell Robinson ([email protected])

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