On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:31:54PM -0400, Robert Swan wrote:
> OMG, listen.
>
> We setup regular mail server for companies (mostly exchange servers).
> Once we setup the mail server I want to send an e-mail from that new
> mail server to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want that email run
> through all the Spamassasin tests then sent back to me with all the
> rules that were triggered etc in the body..
>
> this domain and SPAM server would be used only for this purpose. So it
> could not be used as a relay or anything like that...
Yes, but replying to sender is a terrible idea. Tremendous amounts
of spam get sent to random addresses with a real person's address
forged into the header; with your planned setup, spam from those
addresses to your server would get mailed back to these innocent
parties.
To give you an idea, I had to permanently cancel some of the contact
addresses at my wife's professional organization because they had been
forged in spam runs over a period of weeks; her mailbox was getting
anywhere from dozens to hundreds of bounces from a single forged
contact address.
The idea of being able to get back a scored copy of a mail is fine in
principle, but you need to work out something where it forwards it to a
fixed address at your server or something of the kind. That way if it
gets spammed, it harms nobody but your server.
-- Clifton
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Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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