Henrik K writes: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:03:28AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > > > > Henrik Krohns writes: > > > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:35:31AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > > > > > > > > the VBounce plugin is intended to catch backscatter -- bounces in > > > > response > > > > to mail you didn't send -- so it'll ignore bounces in response to mail > > > > you > > > > _did_ send, by parsing the bounced message's Received: headers and > > > > looking > > > > for the mailserver's name in there. > > > > > > I've been trying it for myself. One thing I don't like is that all > > > null-sender mail is assumed to be bounces. It creates many FPs. > > > > Yes. What kind of null-sender mail from machines that are not in > > whitelist_bounce_relays do you get? > > I would assume this is common knowledge. :-) > > - Mass mailings of all sorts, mailing lists, news > - Order confirmations > - Some very legimate mails from people using lotus notes, hotmail > - etc, etc.. > > You can just imagine a system/administrator thinking that it's wise to send > anything that "doesn't require a reply" as null. It's very common.
Not in my experience! I haven't seen anything that isn't a bounce message, an out-of-office notification, auto-replies, or other stuff targeted by the VBounce ruleset. certainly not transactional mail. as far as I can tell, it's *not* that common. > Do you want a bug opened? Nah, that's ok ;) --j.
