On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:03:28AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > > Henrik Krohns writes: > > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:35:31AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > > > > > > the VBounce plugin is intended to catch backscatter -- bounces in response > > > to mail you didn't send -- so it'll ignore bounces in response to mail you > > > _did_ send, by parsing the bounced message's Received: headers and looking > > > for the mailserver's name in there. > > > > I've been trying it for myself. One thing I don't like is that all > > null-sender mail is assumed to be bounces. It creates many FPs. > > Yes. What kind of null-sender mail from machines that are not in > whitelist_bounce_relays do you get?
I would assume this is common knowledge. :-) - Mass mailings of all sorts, mailing lists, news - Order confirmations - Some very legimate mails from people using lotus notes, hotmail - etc, etc.. You can just imagine a system/administrator thinking that it's wise to send anything that "doesn't require a reply" as null. It's very common. Do you want a bug opened?
