On Thu, November 16, 2006 2:25 pm, Nathan Zabaldo wrote:
> Bill Randle wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> That message is coming from amavisd-new. There are two ways his users
>>> would be seeing that message: 1) he is scanning outgoing email
>>> (why?)
>>> and it is scoring that email as possible spam, or 2) it is coming from
>>> a remote mail system that customers are trying to send mail to.
>
>
> The issue is users of the same domain sending interoffice emails to one
> another and once in a while one of the users gets this "apparently from
> you" message and stops delivery of the email.
>
>> In either case, it would seem the customers are sending mail that is
>>
>>> somewhat spammy. If outgoing mail is being scanned, consider not
>>> scanning it or adjusting the default kill and kill2 levels in
>> amavisd.conf
>>> (typically in /etc or /etc/amavisd).
>>>
>
>
> Outgoing mail does not need to be scanned. Where would this have been
> setup? In Postfix or Amavisd-New?
If you send mail out through the Postfix server that uses amavisd-new, it
will scan mail just the same as incoming mail unless you configure it to
somehow recognize the difference and act accordingly.
How do I turn it off?
http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/bypassing.html
may be of use. There are also recipient based methods outlined in
amavisd.conf-sample.
Search for the word 'outgoing'.
Gary V
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