----- Original Message ----- >your amavisd-new is configured to reject mail with bad headers. as you >see, this block legitimate mail. > >note that since your amavisd-new is sending bounces, you are a potential >backscatter source. do not bounce mail after it was accepted by one of >your servers. once mail is accepted, either deliver, quarantine or >discard. discarding is bad, but bouncing is evil.
Backscatter is not just ANY bounced email. Non-delivery notices are not bad either. A mail server sending a bounce notice because a message was malformed is a correct action to take. Sending a bounce notice because the message was infected has turned into a bad thing and is now considered backscatter. ================================= Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 562-2131 local 5448 My Blog: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel My File share: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/users/gagel ------------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------
