Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-08 Thread Jo Rhett
Scott, I appreciate your ethusiasm, but your logic is flawed and your percentages are off by greater than 88 percent. SPF is useful for what it does. It does limit backscatter (more places check SPF than don't). It's a piece of the puzzle, and fairly effective for what it does. On May 8,

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-08 Thread Marcelo Maraboli
Marc: Read this: http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-backscatter.htm then use what I use: http://elqui.dcsc.utfsm.cl/util/email/backscatter.html regards, Marc Grober wrote: > I am getting pounded by backscatter as a result of one of my addresses > being used by some major spammers. Are there a

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-08 Thread Scott Likens
I wish that was really true, However having a spammer recently using my domain and email address to spam viagra. SPF etc don't really work unless the receiver is using SPF checking. The simple truth is, bots check mailing lists, spam as users like you or I. They find a new target, and sta

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-08 Thread Jules Agee
Marc Grober wrote: > I am getting pounded by backscatter as a result of one of my addresses > being used by some major spammers. Are there any solutions available to > address all the Delivery failure and bounce notices. I would at least > like to be able to sort between such responses from mail I

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, as every MTA-Software uses other Templates for these kind of bounces, there is not "one" header you can use for this kind of filtering. We use the vbounce rule from spamassassin, which adds *BOUNCE_MESSAGE entries to the header X-Spam-Status to filter these kind of backscatter. http://wiki.a

thunderbird sieve certificate issues

2008-05-08 Thread Marc Grober
I have thunderbird sieve extension connecting to my mail server, but the extension then advises that the server is requiring a certificate. Though I have a number of Thawte email certs none of them will of course be accepted and the extensions say they are unable to establish an encrypted con

Backscatter solutions

2008-05-08 Thread Marc Grober
I am getting pounded by backscatter as a result of one of my addresses being used by some major spammers. Are there any solutions available to address all the Delivery failure and bounce notices. I would at least like to be able to sort between such responses from mail I am actually sending an