YES. This would solve the problem we are having (although not perhaps everyone's problems <g>). None of these messsages were only to the postmaster. They all came either with two names in the TO line or with a CC that included the postmaster.
Karen > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Madscientist > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelist and mult rcpt > > > In the interim, a less complex method might be to have a setting which > will ignore a white list entry for an address if more than one recipient > is specified. This might take the form of a special kind of whitelist > entry. Most valid messages to postmaster, for example, only have > postmaster as the recipient. I know this would be less complicated than > splitting up the messages. > > I wonder if there is a clean way to intercept message retreival or final > delivery (better) with a program like a "second pass" of Declude or > another utility like Message Sniffer. I'm not close enough to the guts > of IMail to know if this is practical, but it might significantly > simplify this problem. > > Any ideas Scott? > > _M > > ]-----Original Message----- > ]From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karen Oland > ]Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:57 AM > ]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ]Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelist and mult rcpt > ] > ] > ]We've been getting a lot of spam in the last week or so that > ]bypasses all > ]our spam filters -- they are all copied to the postmaster@ > ]account for our > ]domain. Apparently, they are taking advantage of the common > ]practice of > ]whitelisting the postmaster and the inability of spam > ]filtering programs to > ]separate actions on messages sent to multiple users. No > ]doubt, it won't be > ]long before most messages do the same, rendering both your postmaster > ]account and spam filters useless. > ] > ]I know it has been asked for before and said to be > ]"impossible" (programmer > ]speak, for don't want to do it -- I know, being one), but > ]PLEASE consider > ]creating multiple copies of messages that arrive for multiple > ]recipients, so > ]that the spam filters can operate (yes, this means some > ]complications, but a > ]little trickery could reduce problems -- for example, only > ]making a copy for > ]the recipient(s) that are whitelisted). > ] > ]--- > ][This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
