Peter Huetmannsberger wrote: > Hello, > > I am not sure this is not slightly off topic, but I would like to hear > your opinion on this. I looked through my logfiles today and came across a > line that led me to check if the mailserver may have accidentally ended up > on a RBL list. > > All was clear except for backscatterer.org. > > I went to their website and they basically accused me (and whoever looks > there) of not running a reasonably configured mailserver, because I send > DSN notices to anyone below 8 points. I realise that backscatter is a > problem, or can be, but I figured that 8 was sufficiently low. > > I refuse to turn it off altogether, because I do not want to have my phone > ring everytime someone thinks a mail did not arrive, because someone > misspelt an emailaddress. But they charge EURO 50,-- to be taken off the > RBL. Sorry but I find this outrageous. > > Is there anything else I can do, other than lower the threshold. I use > pyzor, razor, all sorts of other plugins ins spamassassin, and feel that I > am doing enough. It's bad enough to fight the spammers, but to have to > fight the "good?" guys now too, seems a bit much. > > Sorry about the rant, look at their website and you know why!
Is the message spam? If not, deliver it. If so, *don't bounce it back to an innocent 3rd party*. If you're marking legit mail as spam, raise the threshold. Tag and deliver the gray-area stuff so that your users can decide what to do with it. Better yet, if your customers use IMAP, you can use server-side filtering to move the tagged messages into a junk folder automatically. Smart (read: competent) administrators only check bounce/verification messages against the backscatterer.org list. If a message is not a bounce or address probe, the recipient shouldn't care whether or not the sender is listed on backscatterer.org. So, unless you fix your configuration, it's not really a problem. Your bounce messages are all spam anyway, and anyone checking backscatterer.org doesn't want them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
