On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:14:59 +0000, Steven Champeon via mailop
<mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
>We recently refused mail from a potential licensee because their own
>Forefront server labeled it as spam. Authenticated, outbound, and so on,
>and they still thought it was worthy of rejecting, so we rejected it (I
>still don't quite understand why once a message has been determined to
>be spam it is still relayed - but I don't have that many X-headers to
>draw on).
Outgoing mail has the same filter set applied to it as incoming mail. If an
item earns a spammy score, it is marked as such and normally sent out a "high
risk" IP pool. It is occasionally necessary to track down false positives,
and:
> Is there anything at all about these headers that has value?
They have value in that they give information that can be useful in
troubleshooting.
Disclaimer: I left my office, down the hall from Michael's, a litte over five
years ago. Just before they moved everybody out of offices and into the
newly-faddish "open plan" workplace hell.
mdr
--
If Jurassic Park had been about email, Jeff Goldblum would be known
for saying "Spammers, uh, find a way".
-- David Carriger of Infusionsoft, after noting that some spammers
they hosed off the deck had found a new home elsewhere.
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