It's a feature to counteract the downside of "Whitelisting". Sometimes, we have to use white-listing (e.g., the "postmaster" domain so that false positive reports can reach us and we can fine-tune our bounce/delete policities). On the other hand, much spam is now directed against those accounts.
By using the BYPASS... feature, the white-listing can be made "conditional" on number of recipients AND/OR on total weight. Example - a very high weight almost certainly indicates SPAM (all my false reports have always been very close to the threshold). Also, if someone contacts "Postmaster", there is no need to include 10 other local accounts. That's another sign of someone simply spamming the Postmaster account. After using the BYPASS... feature the extremely high levels of spam seen by our support (postmaster) staff has dropped significantly. Of course, with the i12 bug that would be broken - because suddenly email would be penalized even though the sender only used one SINGLE Email address in the "To" field. Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Landry Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 09:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Bug: Alias content counted as recipients ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But, with "BYPASSMULTIRECP" it is clear that for "SPAM protection", a Sorry to jump in on this thread, but what is "BYPASSMULTIRECP" and when was it introduced into Declude? I searched the JunkMail manual, release notes, and archive site and found no reference to this option. Bill --- [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.
