At 01:43 19-5-2005, Ryan Sorensen wrote:
My biggest concern though is messages that come in from spammers, get filtered by spam assassin (they have ***SPAM*** tags in the subject) and then go on to the AOL forwards. These are defanged messages that still get reported as spam. I have to believe that AOL isn't stupid enough to blacklist me for relaying the message... i hope?
Unfortunately, THEY ARE that stupid.. It makes sense in a way, as there is no way to tell the difference between a mailserver forging trace headers and an actual forward, but it causes a world of problems.
Several larger shared webhosting companies have disabled forwarding to AOL accounts for this very reason. Some idiot customers of theirs reported mail as spam and got their own webhost's mailserver blacklisted \o/
Marcel Veldhuizen
The Netherlands
