Re: Spam notification

2010-06-21 Thread Bas Mevissen
On 18-6-2010 11:38, Birta Levente wrote: In my opinion the best way is to block all mails if sender appear in recipient addresses. (I think it's stupid to send mail to yourself, if it's about not spam) It is very common to send something to yourself. For example if you want to work on a docu

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Goodge put forth on 6/18/2010 4:28 AM: > 1. Just discard spam. By this I hope you mean rejecting the message at SMTP time, not accept and move to /dev/null. Regarding the OP's original issue, im my experience, nearly all spam that has a 'from' address matching the local 'to' address is bot

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Antoine Nguyen
Le 18/06/2010 11:51, Reko Turja a écrit : I'm not a great fan of quarantining, although it works fairly well for webmail systems where the quarantine can be accessed through the same interface as the inbox (eg, Gmail and Hotmail). It's less helpful where mail is delivered to a POP3 or IMAP box

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Reko Turja
I'm not a great fan of quarantining, although it works fairly well for webmail systems where the quarantine can be accessed through the same interface as the inbox (eg, Gmail and Hotmail). It's less helpful where mail is delivered to a POP3 or IMAP box as users have to go to a separate interfac

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Antoine Nguyen
Le 18/06/2010 11:42, Erik Logtenberg a écrit : Michael Weissenbacher wrote: Conclusion: the spam is passed! I could stop sending notifications but I think my employer would not like it... Short answer: You should NEVER notify anyone about detected spam! This will effectiv

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Erik Logtenberg
Michael Weissenbacher wrote: >> Conclusion: the spam is passed! I could stop sending notifications but I >>> think my employer would not like it... > Short answer: > You should NEVER notify anyone about detected spam! This will > effectively make yourself a spam source. It's even worse when you att

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Birta Levente
On 18/06/2010 11:36, Antoine Nguyen wrote: Hi all, I'm facing a stupid situation and I'm looking for advises. I'm using a postfix relay to filter viruses and spams. All is working well except with spam that use the same declared address for both sender and recipient. What happened in this par

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Antoine Nguyen
Le 18/06/2010 11:28, Mark Goodge a écrit : On 18/06/2010 10:17, Antoine Nguyen wrote: Le 18/06/2010 11:15, Michael Weissenbacher a écrit : Conclusion: the spam is passed! I could stop sending notifications but I think my employer would not like it... Short answer: You should NEVER notify anyo

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Mark Goodge
On 18/06/2010 10:17, Antoine Nguyen wrote: Le 18/06/2010 11:15, Michael Weissenbacher a écrit : Conclusion: the spam is passed! I could stop sending notifications but I think my employer would not like it... Short answer: You should NEVER notify anyone about detected spam! This will effectivel

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Antoine Nguyen
Le 18/06/2010 11:15, Michael Weissenbacher a écrit : Conclusion: the spam is passed! I could stop sending notifications but I think my employer would not like it... Short answer: You should NEVER notify anyone about detected spam! This will effectively make yourself a spam source.

Re: Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Weissenbacher
> Conclusion: the spam is passed! I could stop sending notifications but I > > think my employer would not like it... Short answer: You should NEVER notify anyone about detected spam! This will effectively make yourself a spam source. It's even worse when you attach the original message. hth, Mich

Spam notification

2010-06-18 Thread Antoine Nguyen
Hi all, I'm facing a stupid situation and I'm looking for advises. I'm using a postfix relay to filter viruses and spams. All is working well except with spam that use the same declared address for both sender and recipient. What happened in this particular situation is described as follow: