[Mimedefang] Auto Responders and SPAM

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, David F. Skoll wrote:

> David Benigni wrote:
>
>> I have been bitten twice by SPAM email forging addresses, someone
>> vacation rule send a message to a rbl trap account and my servers get
>> black listed.
>
>> Other than disabling rules like this, has anyone some up with a way to
>> reduce this?  I was think of using MIMEDefang to do this, but I wanted
>> to get community feedback first.
>
> Well, I suppose that if something scores high on SpamAssassin, you
> could add a Precedence: bulk or Precedence: junk header, which makes
> some auto-responders not respond.  (But this isn't guaranteed.)

Hey, this is a very good idea!
Did this right now.

> PS: If you *must* use an auto-responder, please make sure it behaves

So many people like them, <sigh>, I've enabled one for two days when I was 
on vacation and was about tripled by bounce messages (responses to SPAM, 
bounced back and where not tagged as SPAM and end up in the INBOX).

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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