azurIt wrote: > I don't believe in rejecting e-mails based on spam checks - there are and > always be false positives. I will rather accept 100 spams than reject single > legitimate e-mail message.
Spam volume these days is such that accepting, processing, and storing **all** mail is becoming more and more unworkable, especially with a situation like you're asking about where that stream of garbage is forwarded out of your system to a system that *does* reject some volume of spam (or blocks your system outright if you send them too much spam). Depending on how you count, we reject anywhere from 50% to 90% of our total mail volume based on a Spamhaus lookup. Aside from an incident where a Postini netblock got listed for a little while, I don't think I recall *any* false positives over several years. To more directly answer your original question, it would help if you posted an overview of your mail flow. It sounds like your forwarding is done via alias rather than .forward or some similar processing on final local delivery; choosing a different place for your forwarding may help cut the volume of forwarded spam. -kgd
