RE: [PHP] Hanmir I'm gonna kill you, you son of a..........

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 *@hanmir.com 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: dufus@hanmir\.com * !^X-Loop: youraddress@yourdomain\.tld | formail -A "X-Loop: youraddress@yourdomain.tld" | $SENDMAIL abuse@hanmir.com 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. --- Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list. Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering Post Box 2395 / San Rafael, CA 94912-2395