[RAS] email problem on nebka?

Christian Zimmermann christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
Mon Feb 25 10:41:52 EST 2008


The problem is the following. SpamAssassin is bouncing to the reply-to 
address, which typically has nothing to do with the spamers. The recipient 
flags your bounce as spam, Barracuda picks that up, and we are 
blacklisted.

So, just kill the spam, do not bounce.

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:

>
>  Christian Zimmermann writes
>
>> Well bouncing seems to be a potential problem, according to the link I
>> provided.
>
>  Just because of this company's policy, and only if you forward
>  a lot of spam.
>
>  Accepting spam is not killing spam, it is saying to spamers,
>  send more over there, somebody may be reading it.
>
>  Login as aras to see the spam that's flying there.
>
>  Believe me, I did not take the decision lightly to put
>  up a spam filter. But I could not go without it.
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
>  phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel
>



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