Why would you white list the postmaster anyway, only 1 of about 1000 emails to my postmaster account is legitimate. Same for abuse.
Madscientist wrote: >Most valid messages to postmaster, for example, only have >postmaster as the recipient. ---- When ever I notify a domain of a poorly configured server or a server in spam databases. I send the message to abuse, postmaster, domain billing, and domain admin email addresses. I find I mostly ger responses from the domain billing email address. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karen Oland > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelist and mult rcpt > > > YES. This would solve the problem we are having (although not perhaps > everyone's problems <g>). None of these messsages were only to the > postmaster. They all came either with two names in the TO line > or with a CC > that included the postmaster. > > Karen > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Madscientist > > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:49 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelist and mult rcpt > > > > > > In the interim, a less complex method might be to have a setting which > > will ignore a white list entry for an address if more than one recipient > > is specified. This might take the form of a special kind of whitelist > > entry. Most valid messages to postmaster, for example, only have > > postmaster as the recipient. I know this would be less complicated than > > splitting up the messages. > > > > I wonder if there is a clean way to intercept message retreival or final > > delivery (better) with a program like a "second pass" of Declude or > > another utility like Message Sniffer. I'm not close enough to the guts > > of IMail to know if this is practical, but it might significantly > > simplify this problem. > > > > Any ideas Scott? > > > > _M > > > > ]-----Original Message----- > > ]From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karen Oland > > ]Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:57 AM > > ]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ]Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelist and mult rcpt > > ] > > ] > > ]We've been getting a lot of spam in the last week or so that > > ]bypasses all > > ]our spam filters -- they are all copied to the postmaster@ > > ]account for our > > ]domain. Apparently, they are taking advantage of the common > > ]practice of > > ]whitelisting the postmaster and the inability of spam > > ]filtering programs to > > ]separate actions on messages sent to multiple users. No > > ]doubt, it won't be > > ]long before most messages do the same, rendering both your postmaster > > ]account and spam filters useless. > > ] > > ]I know it has been asked for before and said to be > > ]"impossible" (programmer > > ]speak, for don't want to do it -- I know, being one), but > > ]PLEASE consider > > ]creating multiple copies of messages that arrive for multiple > > ]recipients, so > > ]that the spam filters can operate (yes, this means some > > ]complications, but a > > ]little trickery could reduce problems -- for example, only > > ]making a copy for > > ]the recipient(s) that are whitelisted). > > ] > > ]--- > > ][This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > > (http://www.declude.com)] > > > > --- > > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > > > --- > > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
