At 06:03 4/6/2005, Brett wrote: >Mail for MYCOMPANY.COM is handled by XMail at MYDOMAIN.COM >All mail (that gets thru the filters) for MYCOMPANY.COM is >handed to an (GACK!) Exchange 2000 server. > >I do this thru a Custom Domain. > >First anything getting through the Spam Lists, DNS, etc. and received is >Virus checked. I log all virus email. > >Second all non-infected email is matched against employees addresses that >chenged over three years ago - when spam got so bad we changed our >addressing method. I also throw in employees as they leave (after a >suitable delay - we are very sales oriented). I log all not-wanted email. > >Next I allow the Exchange users to reject mail based on addresses or >domains through our Intranet Website. To cover most users, this data is >pulled from a MySQL database of XMail for the last week of email that >they received. I log both kill-by-address and kill-by-domain. > >I even setup an account at MYDOMAIN.COM for them to forward spam to, so >they have control over what email they receive. This currently populates >the kill-by-address datafiles. I log all addresses forwarded to 'spam'.
Question: You mention several checks in here (virus checks, blacklist checks, user checks, etc)... How many of these checks result in bounce notices being sent (as opposed to rejections during the protocol session with an appropriate 5xx error message)? Because in today's forgery-rich environment, bounces are a *bad* thing - and will tend to get the mail server delivering them blacklisted in many places... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
