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Re: What to do with backscatter?

From: Ken A <ka(at)pacific.net>
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 10:32:54 EDT

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Arthur Dent wrote:

>> One thing that does plague me however is a periodic rash of Non
>> Delivery Receipt messages (I've just had one now - about 10-15 or
>> so). These score anywhere between 1.2 and 11.1 but mainly around the
>> 3.7 mark (below my spam threshold of 5.0). They all hit the
>> ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE rule.

>
> I think the best thing to do is to reject as many of those messages as
> you can at SMTP time. I am using Postfix with good result
> incorporating the ideas from this reference.
>
> http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html
>
> Other MTA's will use similar methods.
>
> Bob

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Ken Anderson
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Received on Mon Oct 29 10:34:36 2007

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