Bounce help please!

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Fri Mar 19 22:10:02 GMT 2004


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Alan [mailto:mailscanner at ELKNET.NET] 
> Envoyé : 19 mars, 2004 16:51
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: Bounce help please!
> 
> 
> Nevermind, I got it. When I had installed MS 4.29-3 I had changed the
> bounce.rules default from 'no' to 'yes'. This doesn't work...
> 
> When I changed the 'Enable Spam Bounce =' from the bounce ruleset to a
> simple 'yes', then my rejection bounce notices came back. Took over 12
> hours to figure this out.
> 
> Frankly I am clueless as to the strong wording in the docs 
> and the bounce
> ruleset to 'under no circumstances' set the default for 
> bounce to yes. I
> certainly agree that it is a very bad idea to send bounce 
> rejections to
> high scoring spam, but I would be open to major litigation if 
> I didn't send
> bounce notification to the low scores on the off chance that 
> I rejected a
> critically important ham and didn't notify the sender.
> 
> I MUST send out rejections to the low scores on the off chance that I
> incorrectly rejected a message that was important. AT least 
> by sending the
> rejection, the sender knows their message did not get through 
> and can take
> steps to rectify the problem with me.

This has been discussed deeply around the time of the release of the 23/1/2004.
Search the archive if you want to know what happened.

> 
> Well, at least I'm okay again...
> 




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