Milter-greylist

Richard,

I’m curious now.

When you say bogus, is it that the sending ip was forged or the person reporting didn’t investigate closely enough?

(I can provide headers for a recent UGG spam if you want an example.)

Bill 

> On Nov 28, 2017, at 7:50 PM, Richard Johnsson johnsson@hamilton.com [milter-greylist] <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> My mail server is at Linode. I get a spam complaint ticket from Linode every 2-3 months. All are bogus, and it takes a lot of time to respond to them.
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> On 11/28/2017 12:16 PM, Bill Levering idbill@... [milter-greylist] wrote:
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>> Anyone notice that Linode’ s address space appears to have recently grown significantly?
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>> I only get UGG Outlet and Sunglasses spam from their address space, which is why I notice.
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>> Also… what is the consensus of reporting spam back to the originating ISP?
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>> I used to do this faithfully, by attaching the original message in a new email back to the abuse/spam address listed on the ISP website. 
>> That way the ISP will have ALL the info needed to prove that it was spam and where it originated.
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>> But Microsnot/Outlook in their infinite wisdom doesn’t allow attachments. 
>> So I used to forward the emails to them with a new subject line. Well… they then decided I was a spammer and started blocking all mail from my server!
>> I had to call them to get the block lifted, but I’m now on probation...
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>> Most of the time I don’t get any response, so I wonder if reporting is a wasted effort.
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>> Bill
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