Darrell / Scott:
We do not whitelist the postmaster account, instead you setup a filter
test that contains an allrecips for the postmasters email address and
assign this test a really high negative value to prevent the message from
being bounced. Then you set the action up for the test as a
We do not whitelist the postmaster account, instead you setup a filter
test that contains an allrecips for the postmasters email address and
assign this test a really high negative value to prevent the message from
being bounced. Then you set the action up for the test as a routeto back
to the
In the interim, a less complex method might be to have a setting which
will ignore a white list entry for an address if more than one recipient
is specified. This might take the form of a special kind of whitelist
entry. Most valid messages to postmaster, for example, only have
postmaster as the
Karen,
This is something that I brought up on the list awhile back with how to
avoid this. As we were getting hammered with spam getting to the end user
cause they were tagging the whitelisted postmaster account to it.
We do not whitelist the postmaster account, instead you setup a filter
test
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In the interim, a less complex method might be to have a setting which
will ignore a white list entry for an address
Why would you white list the postmaster anyway, only 1 of about 1000 emails
to my postmaster account is legitimate. Same for abuse.
See http://www.rfc-ignorant.org . They list domains that ignore abuse
complaints.
Perhaps the reason spam is so widespread now is because people aren't
bothering
From: R. Scott Perry
Perhaps the reason spam is so widespread now is because people aren't
bothering to listen to the abuse complaints. :)
True. Oddly, we get ZERO emails sent to abuse (other than a flurry of virus
attempts a while back). But, postmaster has become one of the most popular
Bilbee
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Why would you white list the postmaster anyway, only 1 of about
This is directly off the rfc-ignorant.org site. So it is OK to reject/block
email to the postmaster as long as the following is applied.
After careful consideration, there seemed to be a consensus among users that
use of blacklists, etc., did not meet the narrowly tailored requirements
for
Then could you add special handling in declude for postmaster and abuse to
allow for an alert to be passed back the the sender if the email should be
deleted or held and one of the reciepients is postmaster or abuse or mabe
the accounts could be configurable. A template email could be used to
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Then could you add special handling in declude for postmaster
and abuse to
allow for an alert to be passed back the the sender if the email
should be
deleted
But if the email is set to bounce and it is sent to multiple receipients
along with postmaster and one of the other reciepients is set to delete then
wont the email just be deleted and never bounced?
You are correct -- the DELETE action will take priority over the BOUNCE action.
I'll see if we
I know it has been asked for before and said to be impossible
(programmer
speak, for don't want to do it -- I know, being one), but PLEASE consider
creating multiple copies of messages that arrive for multiple recipients,
so
that the spam filters can operate (yes, this means some
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