Handling bounced spam messages

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Jun 14 01:00:22 CEST 2005


Mark Constable <markc at renta.net> writes:

> The admin users of mine and vhost domains get bounces back for
> all sorts of reasons and they often go into an unsure folder
> until trained not to. What bothers me is that by retraining
> these bounced messages to be ham I suspect I am destabilizng
> databases and polluting them with highly spammish tokens from
> these bounced spams.
>
> Is this really a potential problem and can anyone suggest a
> good strategy to deal with bounces and otherwise spammish
> admin messages so that obviously spammish tokens do not get
> relearned as ham tokens ?

If you want all bounce messages, check the envelope sender and have
message with null envelope sender (Return-Path:) bypass bogofilter, and
don't train.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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