Well, we recently just got off of Postini for our AntiSpam service.  We went to 
Mimecast.  This is a learning curve - but I am working through it.

One of the things Mimecast offers is a "inbound lockout" feature.  I like it - 
it basically says that if an inbound email is from one of our domains 
(@mydomain.com) then unless there is rule with a gateway IP address for it, 
then it will block it outright. Nice, we can stop the spoofing! Yeah!

However, I am finding that some websites have articles you can email yourself. 
They ask for who from and who to. They then spoof the from going to the target 
address - so if I answer [email protected] for both from and to, then now it 
will be blocked by the anti-spoof rule.  I think that it is very bad 
form/style/etc. for the websites to do this. They should be sending from their 
domain ([email protected]) instead.

Postini didn't block these. So, now I have a bunch of folks upset about this. 
They can't seem to get their articles mailed to them. I told them to spoof 
someone else (hotmail, gmail, whatever).

What do you folks do?  What is your opinion on the "lockout" feature?



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