You of course understand that this is not possible, right?

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> Vasya Pupkin:
>> I'm doing best I can to fight spam.
>
> Then you will have to predict what mail will be rejected down-stream.
> Let me know when you solve that problem :-)
>
>        Wietse
>
>> that pierced through all filters. There is no 100% way to detect spam
>> and you know that. So, some percentage will still go through and will
>> be forwarded, and possibly rejected, causing bounce to be generated.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
>> > Vasya Pupkin:
>> >> Hello.
>> >>
>> >> First, I have spent two days reading articles and searching web for
>> >> solution but failed there. I am using postfix as an mx for my domains,
>> >> it accpets mail for different addresses withing my domains which is
>> >> then forwarded to other external domains, i.e. google.com and other
>> >> mail services. Mail for unknown users is rejected, many other check
>> >> are performed, but still sometimes my system acts as a backscatterer
>> >> when something like this happens:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Incoming mail passes all tests, it's coming to one of the addresses
>> >> within my domain, i.e. existing-u...@mydomain.tld
>> >> 2. Postfix then forwards mail to external domain, i.e. 
>> >> myem...@mailservice.tld
>> >> 3. For some reason mailservice.tld rejects this mail, i.e. it doesn't
>> >> like it's content or size.
>> >> 4. Postfix then bounces mail to sender, which can be forged, and thus,
>> >> becoming a backscatterer.
>> >>
>> >> Is there any way to prevent postfix from sending bounces anywhere?
>> >
>> > The best conutermeasure is not to forward spam.
>> >
>> > The second-best solution requires the ability to predict if a
>> > specific message will be rejected down-stream. Let me know when
>> > you solve that, so I can add it to Postfix.
>> >
>> > ? ? ? ?Wietse
>> >
>>
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