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What mail server are you using? My mail server, MailEnable, lets me=20
decide if a reply is sent and to whom. In the case of a virus having=20
been found I send the response to myself.

Allen Mulvey

On 6/6/2021 6:22 PM, Alan Pearce wrote:
> No, I'm not here, I've gone to bed ...
> Its late in the UK now ... :))
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Jun 2021 23:53:31 +0100 (BST)
> smplx <smplx@allotrope.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm afraid I've been off the air for a few weeks while trying to sort
>> out my email. It might seem strange to many that it would take anyone
>> this long but I wanted to put the mail server inside its own VM
>> behind a firewall. It turns out that doing this is a problem if you
>> want the mail server to be able to reject spoofed email at the
>> "connect" stage (before it gets queued). Once an email is accepted
>> and placed in a queue, protocol dictates that a subsequent rejection
>> involves sending a message back to the sender. If the sender's
>> address was spoofed then YOU end up generating "backscatter" spam.
>>
>> Regards
>> Sergio Masci

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