As this reply to yours mentions, it is not a good idea to bounce them back.
Bouncing was ok long ago, when the mails where legit, now your bouncing mostly spam, ie spamming yourself. Times have changed. The solution is also very easy... Don't bounce. Bouncing just leaves your server acting as a back door relay, burns up some of your servers resources and pisses off a lot of people whom never sent an email to your server. As others mention, your server may end up becoming blacklisted because of this and causing you bigger problems. On the topic of Imails antispam settings. While 3rd party products are better than the built in Imail features, many are also cost prohibitive to lots of people. While discussing some of the settup of those 3rd party products should not be considered off topic as some have suggested. A valid discussion of the best possible use of combinations of the provided Imail anti-spam capabilites should not be avoided as also appears to be the case. The volkswagon will never be the ferrari, but still provides some basic driveability. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:44 PM To: Anthony Polselli Subject: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] Poll: Which method do you use to verify if a message is not spam? > Maybe so, but I'm far from the only ISP sending alerts, check out > the thread: "Adding SPAM Addresses to IMail's AntiSpam." I think we > need to stop talking about why it is bad to bounce messages / do > alerts and work on a solution to the problem. I don't see anything in that thread regarding alerts, and certainly nothing endorsing them. And no, we don't need to stop talking about why the practice is useless at best, abusive at worst, if people still don't understand that only in the most select situations will it be remotely feasible. Anyway, I don't even understand what "the problem" is for you. You seem perfectly content to send alerts...you can afford the bandwidth and resources...and your recipients (at least for now) don't find it abusive. What's "the problem" related to this that needs a solution? Nobody's making you turn them off (until you get blacklisted for flooding a Joe-Jobbed and sensitive domain). --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release / Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange Addresses into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa d/release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
