Spam report addressed to multiple people

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Mon Aug 18 06:26:29 IST 2008


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Andrew MacLachlan wrote:
> Hi - This is a strange one.
> Shouldn't MailScanner send a seperate spam notification to each recipient
> of a suspected spam when spam actions = notify? rather than include the
> entire recipient list in the to: field?
> 
> From: MailScanner <postmaster at domain.tld>
> To: aaaa at domain.tld; bbbb at domain.tld; cccc at domain.tld
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:49:18 PM
> Subject: {Spam not delivered} Some Subject
> 
> 
> Our UCE (spam) detectors have been triggered by a message you received:-
> ......

Are you saying you send a notification for each spam message? Do you
happen to send out some to senders as well? (If that is the case you
will propably end up being blacklisted as spam amplifier.)

But do you split messages before MailScanner? It sounds like you don't
do that (properly).

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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