Oh - I forgot the other advantage of doing this. When you aggregate all .forward email out through a single box, stuff that's slipping through your filters starts to stick out like a sore thumb when you analyze the mail queues on that box, so you can tune your inbound filters better. Quite a useful thing to do, really.
srs On 11/20/05, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Turns out the reason was a lot of users with .forwards to AOL > accounts, then reporting .forwarded email as spam. This email was > also going out through our standard outbound mail relays, and the > combination of our outbound spam levels (pretty low for an ISP our > size) AND .forwarded email tipped the balance. > > So what we did was to set things up so that .forward traffic was > routed out a separate IP. And we told AOL what that IP was and also > told them that the only thing coming out of it would be .forward > traffic. >
