Bounce messages - a warning

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Sep 5 09:04:52 IST 2003


I never use spamcop at all. Loads of people have reported that they will
happily add any mail server listed in the headers of a message sent to
them, whether the relaying was on their host or not. And it's very
difficult to get off their list as well. It's one of the less useful lists.

At 08:48 05/09/2003, you wrote:
>We had an unpleasant experience this week when one of our mail relays
>got into SPAMCOP. It turned out this was due to "bounce messages"
>(non-existent users etc) hitting their spam-traps (whatever they are ?)
>
>It emerged that their system ignores delivery failure notices if they
>have the following line in their headers -
>
>Content-type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
>
>
>This may be common knowledge to some people, but it was a new one
>on me !!
>
>
>                    Cheers ...  Ron

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