Re: [vps-mail] Blacklisting Mailer-Daemon

[Jonathan Duncan <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Scott Wiersdorf wrote:

> > # Redirect mailer-daemon notifications to /dev/null
> > :0:
> > * ^From:.*MAILER-DAEMON
> > /dev/null
>
> You don't need a lock file on /dev/null, so the trailing ':' on the
> flags is unnecessary.
>
> If this recipe works, more power to ya. The canonical way is to use
> the ^FROM_DAEMON macro:
>
>  :0
>  * ^FROM_DAEMON
>  /dev/null
>
> but that may be more than you need.
Ah, now that looks like a good bit of information.  Does this ^FROM_DAEMON 
macro work on all the different variations of postmaster bounces?  (eg 
postmaster, mailer-daemon, Mailer-Daemon, MAILER-DAEMON, etc.)  If so, 
that is the solution for me!  Thank you Scott!


> You might also look into the root cause of this; perhaps something
> like SPF on this domain could help mitigate the problem (if this is a
> joe-job issue), since domains currently rejecting the mail w/ a bounce
> might not even accept the mail in the first place if an SPF record
> were present.
This is indeed a joe-job (assuming the definition of joe-job is that a 
spammer sent out a billion e-mail messages with my customers e-mail 
address in the from).  I am a big supporter of SPF, but I have not 
implemented it yet as I had some implementation concerns.  Do you have any 
good SPF tips?  I think I will be heading back over to their site today 
for an update.


> Also, know that rejecting all bounces includes legitimate bounces that
> your customer might want to know about (e.g., misspelling Mom's email
> address) and you'll get no feedback from those. If they understand
> that risk and accept it, this recipe above will be fine.
Yes, I am aware of this.  I am hoping to be able to just implement it long 
enough for the joe-job to finish up.

Veilen dank!
Jonathan
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