This thread was flagged as probable Sp*am / twitmail at my server because of the abundance of punctuation in the subject, but on reviewing the sp*am report, I couldn't belp but look into what this thread must be about.
that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is REJECT'd. But for some reason the emails still come through. All my other REJECT rules work, but just not this one.
Try using connect:(mailhost).hanmir.com on the LHS of your access db entry. Be sure to set it to whatever the hanmir mailhost is, and reject it with an appropriate permanent failure message.
I can only imagine that the reason is because the address sendmail is checking does not end up being hanmir.com. BUT I looked through the email headers and the hanmir.com domain is plastered all over the place!
Anyone know what's up?
Well, after this message, I suspect that I may be blessed with an autoreply that I too can check out.
However, anyone processing mail on a *nix box and has a proper shell account there (even if you download and handle your email via POP from there) should seriously consider using PROCMAIL to handle their incoming email - it's trivial to deal with problem messages. Easy to set up a "twitlist" to filter out messages from individuals who send autoreplies or suffer diarrhea of the keyboard. Poof, gone. No further interraction on your part is necessary.
If they were auto-replies for instance, one might auto forward them to an abuse account (this here is a rough sketch - I don't have the actual address of this moron, nor do I know if his domain has an abuse address - though if he's hosted at some service, the abuse address THERE might be appropriate - if indeed this "hanmir" is hanmir.com, it looks like an organization bigger than just one moron sending autoreplies):
:0 * ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail -A "X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" | $SENDMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With a slightly different invocation, it'd be possible to insert a complaint message in there and tack the original message and headers onto the tail end of the body, so that the message to abuse is actually a repetative complaint about the autoreply.
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