How to avoid bounce using fake "From" header

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Aug 20 14:58:53 IST 2003


At 13:20 20/08/2003, you wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:17:10 -0500, Max Kipness wrote
> > I disagree.
> >
> > If there is a legitimate email flagged as spam we like to let the
> > sender know, and have an email address listed on the warning email
> > for them to contact us with their concens.
> >
> > It's happened several times.
> >
> > > > actually go back to my users. Is there any way to avoid this?
> > >
> > > Yes: Do not bounce spam messages. It is of no use whatsoever anyways...
>
>Yes, because I use a delete action as well I must send a bounce in case a
>legitimate email gets incorrectly flagged.
>
>Is there no way to avoid doing the bounce to the bogus From header?

How about a ruleset on "Spam Actions"?

FromAndTo:      *@yourdomain.com        delete
FromOrTo:       default         bounce delete

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