Re: repost:Question from July 17th

On [2003-Aug-05]  Jerry Sloan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I asked this question July 17th, and got not even a wimper
> 
> 
> I use a recipe on one of my mailing lists that sends an auto-reply.

Do you *have* to send auto-replies to non-subscribers? Does the list address
get so many legit requests (needing an auto-reply) that you can't do them
manually?

Have you looked into putting a spam filter on the incoming mail so the spam
doesn't hit the list address?

I do a combination of all of these things on my lists and they work quite
well.

>The
> problem I am having is this. When spam hits the list and it auto-replies
> and then bounces back because the reply-to sender is bogus, somehow this
> has caused the server that bounces the e-mail to think my mail server is
> spamming and then we got on the spamcop blacklist. Smarthost strips out
> the originators original headers and replaces them with our info. Is
> there anyway for the original headers to be retained so that the
> offender is reported and not my server?

Smartlist's header-munging code is in rc.submit so it never gets hit unless
the message is accepted for the list so I don't understand what you mean about
"Smarthost strips out the originators original headers and replaces them with
our info".

Rich
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