Watermarking, checking bounced mail with sender address

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 09:50:02 IST 2010


Hi

are these headers before or after mailscanner should have checked the
message? If it's after then I see indication that mailscanner has scanned
the message as there are no X-Mailscanner headers.


On 8 July 2010 09:40, ACHA | Cor van den Berghe <cbe at acha.nl> wrote:

> Sorry that I didn't make it clear enough.
>
> I was under the impression that MailScanner does 2 checks before it checks
> the watermark:
> 1. check if the mail has no sender
> 2. check if the mail is bounced
>
> If these 2 conditions are true than MailScanner checks the watermark.
>
> When I check the mail that has been proccessed by MailScanner I find that
> some messages which have no sender are marked as spam because MailScanner
> checked the watermark. On other bounced message, which do have a sender
> address the watermark is not checked
>
> Below is a header of a bounced message which was not marked as spam and was
> not send to the person who got the error message
>
> ----------------------------
> Return-Path: <?g>
> Received: from 75-44-14-134.hadlaw.com (75-44-14-134.hadlaw.com[75.44.14.134] (may be forged))
>     by standic-ls.standic.lan (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o67FlPaf022789
>     for <kruining at fakecompany.com>; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:47:26 +0200
> Received: from 75.44.14.134 (75.44.14.134:87288)
>     by rmwlaw.com.inbound15.mxlogic.net (envelope-from <
> drollnessnpr76 at rmwlaw.com>)
>     (ecelerity 2.2.2.45 r(34067)) with ECSTREAM
>     id 41/73-73224-F30ZP2Q6; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:47:06 -0500
> X-Facebook: from HADXP6 ([LBX2RvMgJV5q])
>     by www.facebook.com with HTTP (ZuckMail);
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:47:06 -0500
> To: kruining at fakecompany.com
> From: <postmaster at fakecompany.com>
> Reply-to: drollnessnpr76 at rmwlaw.com
> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> Message-ID: 47B7B9EDAC6340DE905D63D452E09AC6 at HADXP6
> X-Priority: 3
> X-Mailer: ZuckMail [version 1.00]
> X-Facebook-Notify: password_reset; mailid=
> Errors-To: drollnessnpr76 at rmwlaw.com
> X-FACEBOOK-PRIORITY: 1
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="----------4B7BE4D399338AA1"
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Again please forgive me if I can't make it more clear but English is not my
> native language
>
> Regards,
> Cor.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:
> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: donderdag 8 juli 2010 10:18
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Watermarking, checking bounced mail with sender address
>
> Do you mean the From: address or the envelope sender address?
> MailScanner does nothing with the From: address.
>
> On 08/07/2010 07:27, ACHA | Cor van den Berghe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As I understand it MailScanner only checks the watermark on bounced email
> with no sender address. Is it somehow possible to have MaiScanner check the
> watermark on all bounced email?
> > Lately I get a lot of backscatter mail that have a From: address and I
> have no idea how to stop it
> > Thanks for any help you can give me
> >
> > Regards,
> > Cor van den Berghe
> >
> >
>
> Jules
>
> --
> Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
>
>

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK
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