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
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
