[exim] Avoiding bounces

Hi list! My problem: I have an "info@"-address that forwards the E-Mails to other addresses, some on them outside my servers. Well, unfortunately this address catches many Spam/junk E-Mails and, of course, my Exim (4.88) tries to forward them. Virus are blocked and will __NOT__ be forwarded, but

Re: [exim] Avoiding bounces

> I have an "info@"-address that forwards the E-Mails to other > addresses, some on them outside my servers. > > Well, unfortunately this address catches many Spam/junk E-Mails and, of > course, my Exim (4.88) tries to forward them. > Virus are blocked and will __NOT__ be forwarded, but Spam is

Re: [exim] Avoiding bounces

I don't reject invalid HELO's or invalid rDNS and get very Little spam, because I just ban all those shitty TLDs. I have found out that most spam uses those new shitty TLDs so just banning these shitty TLDs in the MIME from and MAIL from is a good solution: MAIL from stage: deny message =

[exim] rewrite incorrect date headers from email clients

How I do to rewrite the date header from email clients in exim4 config so it are replaced with the server date/time? The problem is that some clients and software are submitting an incorrect date header (like 1 jan 1960) causing the email to be delivered to the bottom of user's clients and

Re: [exim] Avoiding bounces

On 26/05/18 08:03, Luca Bertoncello via Exim-users wrote: > My problem: I have an "info@"-address that forwards the E-Mails to other > addresses, some on them outside my servers. > > Well, unfortunately this address catches many Spam/junk E-Mails and, of > course, my Exim (4.88) tries to forward

Re: [exim] rewrite incorrect date headers from email clients

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 09:52:28PM +0200, Sebastian Nielsen via Exim-users wrote: > How I do to rewrite the date header from email clients in exim4 config > so it are replaced with the server date/time? > > The problem is that some clients and software are submitting an > incorrect date header

Re: [exim] rewrite incorrect date headers from email clients

On 26/05/18 20:52, Sebastian Nielsen via Exim-users wrote: > How I do to rewrite the date header from email clients in exim4 config > so it are replaced with the server date/time? > > The problem is that some clients and software are submitting an > incorrect date header (like 1 jan 1960) causing

Re: [exim] Avoiding bounces

On Sat, 2018-05-26 at 09:03 +0200, Luca Bertoncello wrote: > Well, unfortunately this address catches many Spam/junk E-Mails and, of > course, my Exim (4.88) tries to forward them. > Virus are blocked and will __NOT__ be forwarded, but Spam is some other and, > of course, I cannot be sure if an

Re: [exim] Avoiding bounces

Jeremy Harris via Exim-users schrieb: > But you're better-off never accepting the message. Consider doing > cutthrough-routing for these; this means that if the site you are > forwarding to (Google) refuses the message even as late as after-data > (which, given they need to

Re: [exim] Avoiding bounces

On 26/05/18 15:05, Luca Bertoncello via Exim-users wrote: > Well, this "info@"-address is a forward to many recipients, not just one... Oh, a mail-exploder. OK, no cutthrough routing possible. This is effectively a mailinglist, and you need to put real effort into curating it. Things like: on

Re: [exim] Avoiding bounces

On 2018-05-26, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: > On 26/05/18 15:05, Luca Bertoncello via Exim-users wrote: >> Well, this "info@"-address is a forward to many recipients, not just one... > > Oh, a mail-exploder. OK, no cutthrough routing possible. This is > effectively a

Re: [exim] rewrite incorrect date headers from email clients

1: By simply dropping the date header and inserting a new with the server time. Problem solved. If the header was correct, it will still be correct when replaced. 2: Yeah, but many clients handle date: header astonishly bad too. For example sorting the email by date: header instead of actual