Re: Forwarders' hopes, was SPF and bouncing

At 02:27 21/04/2012  Saturday, Michael Deutschmann wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Apr 2012, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>> What about "generic" forwarders?  I mean sites who provide a web-form
>> to let users specify whatever address they like.  They are obviously
>> not going to hound ultimate servers' admins in order to have their
>> site whitelisted.
>
>Then they are doomed, and not just by SPF and the conspiracy against
>bounces.  IP-address karma systems (possibly involving a "This is Spam"
>button) are an equally grave threat.
>
>On this very list, people have complained about end-users who try to
>manage their spam centrally, turning off spam filtering at the forwarder
>and turning it up at the final MX.  The result is a blackened IP
>reputation of the forwarding handoff mailserver, which from the ultimate
>recipient MX's perspective, looks like an open relay.

simple fix users who do this become ex-customers of the forwarder, its in our TOS it should be in theirs (and enforced)


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