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Spammers went from *.* to <> can we get a block for blank From senders please
Idea shared by network admin - 12/14/2017 at 2:28 PM
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Started seeing this the last few days.
 
[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] rsp: 220 mail.americanlenders.com 52.40.33.93 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:18:42 -06:00
[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] connected at 12/14/2017 12:18:42 AM
[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] cmd: helo mailgun.net
[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] rsp: 250 mail.americanlenders.com Hello [52.40.33.93]
[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] cmd: MAIL FROM: <>
[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] rsp: 250 OK <> Sender ok

[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] cmd: RCPT TO: <decaturga@americanlenders.com>
[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] rsp: 550 <decaturga@americanlenders.com> No such user here
[2017.12.14] 00:18:42 [52.40.33.93][61332321] cmd: quit
 
 

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We have this in SM 16 now. It is the null sender check.
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However, you have to be careful with it as bouncebacks and delivery failures can also be null senders.
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You mean this??? INCOMING OUTGOING
SMTP SMTP
Null Sender 30 N/A N/A

Yeah - DOES NOTHING!
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Interesting. We do not use it as it has caused a lot of issues with delivery failure notices. May want to open a ticket to see what is happening. I know SM has had a lot of SMTP related issues lately, hoping they are fixed up with a release this weekend.
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You can see some history here:
https://portal.smartertools.com/community/a89479/null-sender-fix.aspx

Still a little work to be done. Hope to get null sender to 'block' as it only scores today.
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You can "block" if you score the null sender high-end to trigger an SMTP block. Though we get a lot of legit emails that are null senders.
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Sounds interesting, but I would need a little explanation of how to set up null sender to trigger SMTP block. Guessing it would block all null senders, which is not what we want as there are a lot of legit messages.

Hoping to just have a checkbox so it can assign 10-15 points and when it combines with another RBL, SPF, etc. it will get blocked. That will allow the legit bounces in and reject the spam.
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Nevermind, I see the check only applies to the spool level, not the SMTP layer.
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yyyesss...that's what I'm asking for!!! Please thumbs up my request here:
https://portal.smartertools.com/community/a89479/null-sender-fix.aspx

hey, have a nice weekend (don't spend it managing mail servers :)
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Nope, gotta do the update that came out today :) - Then watch it and hopefully nothing else is going wrong :)
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lol...
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Cannot be any worse than how the ST support / dev team(s) feel :)

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