Heh. Would love to stop using the pipelined metaphor, but alas; I'm not in charge of the design, coding, or anything else... I just try to make sure that the spammy stuff is tagged as spam so y'all can look at it and decide for yourselves, easily. :)
There are many, many other types of messages with NUL sender that are not bounces. We are compelled to deliver it; talk to the senders who wander around wondering what the heck happened to a message that they handed off to a given mailhost and it was never delivered. Much screaming if traffic you thought at the moment was spam, and you just drop it on the floor. Many people scream in your face if you get it wrong. There's things that work at the single mailhost level, and there's things that work at the couple of redundant server level, and there stuff that works when you have tens of thousands of servers being one service... and they all have very little to do with each other beyond a set of protocols they are all supposed to speak. Very little at all. I wish it were otherwise, but it's not. Aloha, Michael. -- Michael J Wise | Microsoft | Spam Analysis | "Your Spam Specimen Has Been Processed." | Got the Junk Mail Reporting Tool ? -----Original Message----- From: Michael Peddemors [mailto:mich...@linuxmagic.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 12:25 PM To: Michael Wise <michael.w...@microsoft.com>; mailop <mailop@mailop.org> Subject: Re: [mailop] Protection Outlook.. <sic> On 15-09-14 12:16 PM, Michael Wise wrote: > If you see this ... > > X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: SFV:SPM > (Specifically, the "SFV:SPM") > > That means we thought it was spam, but due to the pipelined nature of our > service, rather than drop it on the floor as some do, we were compelled to > deliver it. The traffic came in via a TLS connection from Bharti Airtel Ltd. > In India. The account has probably already been killed. > > Aloha, > Michael. > This of course doesn't address the original question of why allowing delivery of messages without the MAIL FROM: that aren't really bounces.. (Time to stop pipelining ;) Thanks for the tip.. But it isn't helping anyone if you keep sending obvious spam out of your networks.. You aren't REALLY compelled to deliver it.. Hard to believe that the infrastructure can't reject known spam.. -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc. Visit us at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.linuxmagic.com&data=01%7c01%7cmichael.wise%40microsoft.com%7cd747489fc87b4aed089208d2bd3a2c22%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=4tY6uZVReK4awovXBVkXKM6t1fhPegHGf5eD4cMV89M%3d @linuxmagic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Wizard IT Company - For More Info https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wizard.ca&data=01%7c01%7cmichael.wise%40microsoft.com%7cd747489fc87b4aed089208d2bd3a2c22%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=vRmsE8iuy6gyD7c33PSUcA2BXxn0NbRljgtai%2f1AyRw%3d "LinuxMagic" a Registered TradeMark of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 604-682-0300 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada This email and any electronic data contained are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and are not intended to represent those of the company. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop
