On 2010-11-29 Randy Ramsdell wrote: > lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: >> Zitat von Randy Ramsdell <rramsd...@activedg.com>: >>> 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 server handles the $users and only forwards known. >>> >>> Or what would be the best practices way? >> >> Best practice is to not forward mail to destinations which don't >> accept it. If the detination has no feature of "whitelist" your >> server, disable forwarding to that destination. All other options >> lead to potential mail blackholes which are worse than spam. > > I understand this. However, I cannot tell the President of our company > that he can't use his exchange server and it is beyond my control to > change the hosted exchange server configuration. I have to forward > this mail no matter what I think should be done.
Have you tried talking to the president of your company and/or the people who can change the hosted exchange server configuration? > 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? Then you cannot avoid being a backscatter source or a mail blackhole or both. Plain and simple. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
