On Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 16:25:00, Paul Fuhrmeister wrote: > Seems my server sent email to a SpamCop spam trap. Now they've black > listed me for spamming. > > I don't send bulk mail or anything. This happened while no one was > even here using our mail system. All I can figure is, we bounced > un-deliverable message back to the sender, which was a forged address > - a SpamCop spam trap.
A good reason to only "reject" undesired e-mail and never "bounce" it. > It seems to me that, if I can identify a spam cop spam trap address, > all I need to do is send an email to an invalid address at a server > "FROM" that spam trap address, and I can get that server black listed. Only if that server "bounces" mail! If it "rejects" it you'll still be stuck with it. > I can probably identify that address. Maybe I can black list spam cop in > their own system. I doubt it, I'd be very surprised if their MTA "bounces" anything. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
