I appreciate this Eric, nice insight. I thought I scared most of the qmailtoaster community with this one. ;)
As for deleting the spam before it goes to AOL, AOL states if you've already marked an email as spam, it will automatically go to that AOL customer's spam box but also will not count towards a "ding" on our mailserver's rep, so that's good. That, I think, is still a better alternative to deleting spam incase that AOL customer wants to go through their spam and "unspam" an email. (see http://postmaster.info.aol.com/faq/forwarding.html for the spam flag description) I will post a full report of this once I finally figure out how to do it completely and have tested it. Thanks for everyone's help! Jared -----Original Message----- From: Eric "Shubes" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] forwarders, x-originating-Ip 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. -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
