Jared Markell wrote:
I have a couple questions, but thought I'd send them in different emails
for ease of search and replies.. I hope.
First one is, how can we enable or add to qmail or qmailtoaster the
ability to add the "X-Originating-IP" to the email headers on emails
that get forwarded to an offsite email server? We have had a huge
problem with existing customers who wanted their website emails
forwarded to their personal accounts (namely at aol.com). When they get
a lot of the mail, they mark the spam as spam - however, aol then thinks
it's OUR email server sending spam to them, when we're just forwarding
anything that wasn't already marked as spam by SA.
According to this aol.com postmaster site, it recommends adding the
originating ip flag to all forwarded emails.
It seems to me (take with salt):
Such a flag would be best added by the originator. There is no way to
accurately determine this information at this point in the delivery process,
as the mail could be coming from a relay.
Some things that could be done are to:
.) add the flag (value, actually) using the IP of the the sending smtp. This
might be a relaying IP, however.
.) look up the IP using the domain of the sending address. This would give
you a better result, with more overhead.
Also along the same lines, anyone know how to change the ip address of
certain emails, per se, forwarded emails go out on this IP, other emails
on this other IP?
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/faq/forwarding.html
Jared
There is no facility in the toaster that I know of for doing these things.
You might want to check with the qmail list.
IMHO, awol (oops!) is trying to get *you* to fix *their* problem, with a
pretty screwy work around I might add.
I would suggest these as possibly solutions (in order):
.) have aol whitelist your server (good luck with that!)
.) drop all spam for these customers at your server (don't forward spam),
and instruct them to *never* mark email coming from you as spam in aol,
simply delete it.
.) have your customers forward their aol mail to you
Let us know if you get a solution.
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-Eric 'shubes'
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