Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Will Fong
On 11/29/2010 12:28 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: We simply alias $user $u...@$othermailserver The $users we forward to are known by our mail server and no mail will forward otherwise. I cannot think of a scenario which rejected mail from $othermailserver would be anything other than UCE in this

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Randy Ramsdell : Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 03:01:45PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: So to rephrase, what would be the best practices way given I have to do forward this email and am powerless to change the design other than our setup which may only include try

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Randy Ramsdell: > We simply alias > > $user $u...@$othermailserver > > The $users we forward to are known by our mail server and no mail will > forward otherwise. I cannot think of a scenario which rejected mail from > $othermailserver would be anything other than UCE in this case. The > frin

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Randy Ramsdell : lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Randy Ramsdell : Hi, I am going to have to implement something that drops rejected mail from one of our aliases. The scenario is that we forward to a external server and cannot match its spam/UCE rules so our server backsk

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 03:01:45PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: So to rephrase, what would be the best practices way given I have to do forward this email and am powerless to change the design other than our setup which may only include trying to mitigate backskatter?

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2010-11-29 Randy Ramsdell wrote: > lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: >> Zitat von Randy Ramsdell : >>> I am going to have to implement something that drops rejected mail >>> from one of our aliases. >>> >>> The scenario is that we forward to a external server and cannot >>> match its spam/UCE rules so

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 03:01:45PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > So to rephrase, what would be the best practices way given I have to do > forward this email and am powerless to change the design other than our > setup which may only include trying to mitigate backskatter? If list expansion ha

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Randy Ramsdell : Hi, I am going to have to implement something that drops rejected mail from one of our aliases. The scenario is that we forward to a external server and cannot match its spam/UCE rules so our server backskatters mail. One way would be

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Randy Ramsdell : > I am going to have to implement something that drops rejected mail > from one of our aliases. > > The scenario is that we forward to a external server and cannot > match its spam/UCE rules so our server backskatters mail. If this alias is a mail distribution list, then it sh

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Randy Ramsdell : Hi, I am going to have to implement something that drops rejected mail from one of our aliases. The scenario is that we forward to a external server and cannot match its spam/UCE rules so our server backskatters mail. One way would be to drop all rejects. I th

Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Hi, I am going to have to implement something that drops rejected mail from one of our aliases. The scenario is that we forward to a external server and cannot match its spam/UCE rules so our server backskatters mail. One way would be to drop all rejects. I think this will work because our