Outbound spam prevention & reaction

John Wilcock john at tradoc.fr
Wed Dec 12 16:12:15 GMT 2007


J Bacher wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
>>     - Using the 'bounce' setting in MailScanner so that spam senders 
>> are notified (for false positives).  A "forward" rule could also be 
>> used to alert someone
> 
> When forged spam email comes through, your server will be spamming 
> someone else (that didn't originate the email).   If you're worried 
> about being blacklisted, this should be on your list of "never do".

... except if you use a ruleset to only bounce spam for internal IP 
addresses.

John.

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