We've got a project planned for Q2 that might help with this. We currently segregate some of our mail streams by sending IP. Unfortunately, too many types of messages (including invitations) are still sent from the "catch-all" IPs. With this project, we should have all of the major mail streams clearly separated. In addition, we'll be including an "X-LinkedIn-Class" header that identifies the type of email (member-to-member invitation, member-to-guest invitation, group digest email, email confirmation message, etc., etc.)
Will that allow you to do the kind of filtering you're talking about? Obviously we'd prefer that nobody filter our mail, but, like I said before, we recognize that it only hurts us to send mail to people who don't want it. We'll continue taking steps to prevent mail from gong to people who don't want it, and hopefully in the meantime some of these projects will make it easier for you to selectively filter our mail, if you choose. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Bob O'Brien [mailto:bobr...@barracuda.com] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 11:28 AM To: SpamAssassin Users List Subject: Re: [LinkedIn Spam] Re: unwhitelist from_dkim? Chris Richman wrote: > Hi, Michelle. I've added those domains to our suppression list so > they shouldn't receive email from us anymore. I wasn't able to add > gnome.org because we have several users with confirmed gnome.org email addresses. > I would like to recommend that you find a way to segregate mail types: 1) mail to confirmed user addresses 2) mail attempting to confirm a new user address (but DO NOT try to do anything else at the same time) 3) all other mail (invitations, or whatever ... to too many of us, it's spam) The first two types are welcome at the domains I personally control. The third is not, and you should consider finding a way to ban it for me - something your message indicates you currently do not have. Bob speaking for myself --
