Outbound spam prevention & reaction
Ugo Bellavance
ugob at lubik.ca
Wed Dec 12 16:32:52 GMT 2007
John Wilcock wrote:
> 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.
That was the plan... But if it uses forged addresses, even if I bounce
for internal IP address, I might be bouncing back to the internet, right?
Ugo
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