The new watermarking feature in 4.62 - an unexpected side effect?

[Martin.Hepworth]

Quentin

I do hope OoO responders die, they are a PITA. A lot of people here have started to used them again (now I've made it easy to do - d'oh) and it caused at least 1 email storm from a bad list.

Personally I haven't used them for years - hmm lets see one of the senior IT guys is out, let attack the network...

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Quentin Campbell
> Sent: 03 August 2007 08:47
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: The new watermarking feature in 4.62 - an unexpected side effect?
>
> Julian
>
> Am running 4.62.9-2 on 8 gateways with the new watermarking feature
> enabled.
>
> It has given rise to an increase in requests to "whitelist" addresses of
> messages that are being tagged.
>
> The messages in question have a blank 'From:' address following the "Our
> MailScanner believes that the attachment to this message sent to you..."
> rubric.
>
> On inspection these messages are almost always 'vacation' or OoO messages.
> It seems that there are good operational reasons for these sorts of auto
> responders to set the envelope-sender address to be null. However this
> causes them to be tagged as spam by MailScanner if watermarking is
> enabled.
>
> I don't consider it appropriate to whitelist addresses in this situation
> but they are 'genuine' messages nonethelees and may well be missed if
> people are filtering into a 'junk mail' folder on the tag. I can't see a
> way around this.
>
> I note, however, that JANET in its latest guidance on avoiding
> inappropriate e-mail bounces (April 2007) -
> http://www.ja.net/cert/email/dontbounce.html - deprecate the use of
> vacation/OoO so perhaps we will see the use of OoO responders reduce in
> future?
>
> Quentin
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