I sent a roughly worded email (below) to a postmaster account. You'll never believe the response I received! Will wonders never cease?
Dan My message: To me this is spam, I'll blacklist you if you don't cut it out. Bouncing spoofed email is just as bad as spamming itself! If you inspect the headers you'll see (Not in this copy, they've been purged of any useful data!) that the original email did not come from my servers. To see my acceptable server IPs, check my SPF records. Dan Barker, President Software Projects, Inc. His reply: Sorry about the inconvenience, I was unaware we were bouncing viral messages. I have changed the policies to reject them instead, so you shouldn't get any more of these. Brian On top-posting: Oh, Fred, please lets not stop here. Oh, Fred, please lets not stop. Oh, Fred, please lets not. ... Oh, Fred, please lets. Oh, Fred, please. Oh, Fred! Oh!! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rod Dorman Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] A plea to Declude users, stop backscattering If you're using Declude (or any other virus/spam checker that happens *after* the SMTP session is over) please configure it so it doesn't send backscatter mail. My domain occurring is in the RCPT TO, From:, Sender:, or Reply-To: means nothing. They are all forgeable. The only thing trustable is the connecting IP address. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rod Dorman A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? 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/ 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/
