Jason Haar writes: > I think we've detoured from the actual problem? > > The fact is that lots of spam is now being sent to other sites, > pretending to be from (collectively) our email addresses, so that we get > the bounces containing the spam. And SA isn't marking these messages as > spam, whereas if it was directly sent the same spam, it would. > > So how do we fix this situation? What about getting SA to "detach" the > associated bounced message as a separate message and score that instead? > I know I can casually just say that - doing is a different matter - but > isn't that really the only answer to this problem?
There's no problem. SpamAssassin 3.2.x includes the VBounce ruleset which is expressly designed to catch backscatter -- and does a good job at it. If you have a backscatter problem, you need to start using that ruleset. --j.
