On 4/8/10 2:38 PM, 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. > > amavisd can be configured to only bounce back if spf/dkim signed.
> 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. > > don't pay the euro 50, if you do, and you still have the problem, they will put you back on. > 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. > > we use it, but only in the recommended 'safe mode' (eg, you can email us, but don't bounce anything to us) Yes, its a problem, but we typically reject hundreds of thousands of backscatter daily. one of our clients who usually got 50,000 spams a month, got 5mm backscatter a month for two months (because of other people who had misconfigured systems that bounced forced spam back) If over 90% of all email is spam, and 90% of all spam is forged from addresses, you do the math. set it to six (ish), tell your clients that if they are looking for an email from someone they should check the reject logs or quarantine.The listing will expire automatically and free of charge 4 weeks after the > last abuse is seen from that IP. > Expedited manual expressdelisting is available as an option, in case you > do not want to wait for the automatic and free expiration. > wait 4 weeks. ask the people you send email to to whitelist your ip's. > You will be charged 50 Euro's using one of the following payment services. > ------------------------unquote---------------------------------------------- > > > Again, please forgive me if this is toatlly off topic! > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > .peter > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned and certified safe by SpammerTrap(r). For Information please see http://www.secnap.com/products/spammertrap/ ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
