gascione wrote: > > > Chris Lightfoot wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:02:23AM -0700, gascione wrote: >>> Hello; >>> >>> We send all mail outbound from our primary mail servers to Exim outbound >>> relays so we can perform some basic tests on the mail and also load >>> balance >>> the outbound traffic. >>> >>> We have a problem with AOL. We have established their required feedback >>> loops and get SPAM reports from them. But they always strip out the >>> recipient's name from the header so when somebody is on one of our >>> customer's legitimate lists and complain anyway we cannot tell who it is >>> so >>> we can remove them from the list. AOL won't help and tells us to make it >>> stop but we will not tell you who is complaianing. >>> >>> I want to put a tag in the header of all email on the way out. Something >>> like: X-SNDRCP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@domain.com >>> >>> That tag will later help us identify who should be removed from what >>> list. >>> Where should this go and what would the syntax be. Is this in the ACL >>> section, routers? And what would it look like. >> what do you intend to do when the message has >1 recipient >> within AOL (such that it might be delivered with several >> RCPT TO statements in a single transaction)? If you put >> all the addressees in the headers in plaintext, this could >> reveal Bcc: information which would not usually be >> available to the recipients -- it would be better to >> encrypt the data with some secret known only to you if you >> do put it in the header. Alternatively you could ensure >> that each delivery is made in a separate SMTP transaction >> (e.g. with max_rcpt = 1 in the transport), in which case >> the simpler approach would work. Either way, you could add >> the header with a warn statement in an ACL or headers_add >> in a router or transport.
>> >> > > Interesting, I was only anticipating putting one single email. Most of our > lists go out to 1 person at a time. Guess I had not thought that one out far > enough. Time to re-think. If you're using something like Mailman which supports personalized messages per list member, then you can add a footer which includes the recipient's email address. In our experience, AOL does not sanitize that. Works pretty well for us. But I think I'll check out the ARF stuff. That seems like it'll work better. M -- Michael F. Sprague | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saneinc.net | Provider of SpamOnion anti-spam service System and Network Engineering (SaNE), Inc -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
