The whitelist entry could be any suitable address... some whitelist postmaster, others might whiltelise sales@ or info@ in order not to miss potential new clients... Ours is not to ask why, but to create tools that make sense to those who use them. ;-)
_M >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee >Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:04 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelist and mult rcpt > > >Why would you white list the postmaster anyway, only 1 of >about 1000 emails to my postmaster account is legitimate. Same >for abuse. > > >Madscientist wrote: >>Most valid messages to postmaster, for example, only have >postmaster as >>the recipient. >---- > >When ever I notify a domain of a poorly configured server or a >server in spam databases. I send the message to abuse, >postmaster, domain billing, and domain admin email addresses. >I find I mostly ger responses from the domain billing email address. > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karen Oland >> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:49 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelist and mult rcpt >> >> >> 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". 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