diff --git a/pyheadermilter/__init__.py b/pyheadermilter/__init__.py
index 7cddb2e..3e8d5f7 100644
--- a/pyheadermilter/__init__.py
+++ b/pyheadermilter/__init__.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ from netaddr import IPAddress, IPNetwork, AddrFormatError
 class HeaderRule:
     """HeaderRule to implement a rule to apply on e-mail headers."""
 
-    def __init__(self, name, action, header, search="", value="", ignore_hosts=[], only_hosts=[], log=True):
+    def __init__(self, name, action, header, search="", value="", ignore_hosts=[], ignore_envfrom="", only_hosts=[], log=True):
         self.logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
         self.name = name
         self._action = action
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ class HeaderRule:
         self.search = search
         self.value = value
         self.ignore_hosts = ignore_hosts
+        self.ignore_envfrom = ignore_envfrom
         self.only_hosts = only_hosts
         self.log = log
 
@@ -66,6 +67,11 @@ class HeaderRule:
         except AddrFormatError as e:
             raise RuntimeError("unable to parse option 'ignore_hosts' of rule '{}': {}".format(name, e))
 
+        try:
+            self.ignore_envfrom = re.compile(ignore_envfrom, re.IGNORECASE)
+        except re.error as e:
+            raise RuntimeError("unable to parse option 'ignore_envfrom' of rule '{}': {}".format(name, e))
+
         try:
             for index, only in enumerate(only_hosts):
                 self.only_hosts[index] = IPNetwork(only)
@@ -100,6 +106,15 @@ class HeaderRule:
             self.logger.debug("host {} is ignored by rule {}".format(host, self.name))
         return ignore
 
+    def ignore_from(self, envfrom):
+        ignore = False
+
+        if self.ignore_envfrom:
+            if self.ignore_envfrom.search(envfrom):
+                ignore = True
+                self.logger.debug("envelope-from {} is ignored by rule {}".format(envfrom, self.name))
+        return ignore
+
     def execute(self, headers):
         """Execute rule on given headers and return list with modified headers."""
         if self._action == "add":
@@ -157,6 +172,17 @@ class HeaderMilter(Milter.Base):
             return Milter.ACCEPT
         return Milter.CONTINUE 
 
+    def envfrom(self, mailfrom, *str):
+        mailfrom = "@".join(parse_addr(mailfrom)).lower()
+        for rule in self.rules.copy():
+            if rule.ignore_from(mailfrom):
+                self.rules.remove(rule)
+
+        if not self.rules:
+            self.logger.debug("mail from {} is ignored by all rules, skip further processing".format(mailfrom))
+            return Milter.ACCEPT
+        return Milter.CONTINUE 
+
     @Milter.noreply
     def data(self):
         self.queueid = self.getsymval('i')
@@ -304,6 +330,7 @@ def main():
             # check if optional config options are present in config
             defaults = {
                 "ignore_hosts": [],
+                "ignore_envfrom": "",
                 "only_hosts": [],
                 "log": "true"
             }
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 49e4b87..c922066 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ def read_file(fname):
         return f.read()
 
 setup(name = "pyheadermilter",
-    version = "0.0.2",
+    version = "0.0.3",
     author = "Thomas Oettli",
     author_email = "spacefreak@noop.ch",
     description = "A pymilter based sendmail/postfix pre-queue filter.",