[Wylug-help] Odd email rejection

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 25 Jul 2007, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Thats looking as though its (ie google) forwarding the original
> message as an attachment (the .eml file).
>
I find that very odd.  All my mailing list subs are now on that address.  I 
get hundreds each day, many with gpg signatures, too, that are forwarded 
correctly.  No harm has been done, apart from the fact that I didn't see one 
message for 6 days, but I hate things to happen that I can't understand :-)

> Incidentally, as the person who originally wrote the exim filter that
> typically gives that rejection message, it might be worth mentioning
> to your ISP that we really really *really* strongly recommend that
> you do not use it nowadays.  It was written before we had the ability
> to do SMTP time rejection, and was good for combating the "I love
> you" worm and similar 8 years ago.  However all spam comes from
> forged email addresses now and accept-and-bounce processing of email
> is not acceptable now, and has not been for several years.
>
I'll bear that in mind, next time I talk to them.  I totally agree that 
bouncing is a pointless exercise these days when handling spam.

Anne
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