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Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?

From Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?
Date 2016-12-16 22:30 +0100
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 20:55:32 +0000
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:


> The fact that some people do not know
> enough to use Spam folders differently from deleted mail is not a
> reason why the rest of us should have our email dropped.
> 

The reason why your mail gets dropped is that it cannot accurately be
identified as not-spam, as I'm sure you know.

If it really is spam, then the Reply-To header is forged, and the last
thing that should be done is to send the message 'back', *quoting* *it*
*in* *full*, to a third party who had nothing to do with it, and who has
now been sent spam from a presumably legitimate mail server.

The problem is not to do with the silent dropping of spam, which is the
correct behaviour for a mail server which has been foolish enough to
accept it in the first place, but to identify it with 100% accuracy and
thereby to prevent the dropping of genuine email. Solve that and you
can name your price...

The next best thing is to identify spam at the SMTP transmission stage
and to refuse it, which *does* tell the sender of mis-identified
legitimate email that it has not been delivered.

-- 
Joe

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  Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-12-15 10:50 +0100
    Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-15 21:40 +0100
      Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-12-15 21:50 +0100
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          Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-12-16 10:00 +0100
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              Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-12-16 11:00 +0100
                Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-12-16 22:00 +0100
                Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-12-16 22:30 +0100
                Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-12-16 22:50 +0100
                Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-16 23:50 +0100
                Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-12-17 00:50 +0100
                Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-12-16 22:30 +0100
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            Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2016-12-20 01:30 +0100
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