Autoresponder being marked as spam

[Alex Neuman]

Yes. The amount of SPAM generated by your server can go from  
absolutely zero in one day to one bazillion gajillion foofillion per  
microsecond. Depending on bandwidth.

Look up backscatter and autoresponders; it's an interesting read.  
Basically the spammer will make your server be his "little *itch" and  
send out their crap as an autoresponse.

On Mar 11, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Rob McDonald wrote:

> Thanks for the response I have resolved the issue. On the topic you  
> bring up, I am curious how much using this will affect my spam. Does  
> anyone have any statistics on spam increases using autoresponders?  
> Thanks
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Neuman" <alex at nkpanama.com>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Autoresponder being marked as spam
>
>
>> <RANT>
>> There are many people here who might agree that autoresponders are  
>> *always* SPAM. I personally avoid them more fervently than STDs.  
>> I'd rather have something that clears up after two weeks on  
>> antibiotics  than the PITA of having to deal with spammers using me  
>> as their spam  factory.
>> </RANT>
>>
>> On the more serious side (I'll hate myself for saying this), if the  
>> autoresponder always comes from the same IP (127.0.0.1 for  
>> example)  you could whitelist stuff that's "From:127. and From:*@mydomain.com 
>> "  so that it doesn't get marked.
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Rob McDonald wrote:
>>
>>> The problem I am having is that it seems mailscanner marks these  
>>> as spam. Is there any way I can avoid this? Thanks in advance.
>>
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