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hints:mail_forwarding [2021/03/05 10:51] admin [Mail forwarding with Procmail] |
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| Almost all incoming mail includes some amount of spam. Our servers typically reject about 80–85% of all incoming mail because it is diagnosed with high confidence as spam. The 15–20% that is permitted to reach you includes some fraction that is likely spam. Mail forwarding as enabled within the Virtualmin or DirectAdmin control panel, or as enabled using a '' | Almost all incoming mail includes some amount of spam. Our servers typically reject about 80–85% of all incoming mail because it is diagnosed with high confidence as spam. The 15–20% that is permitted to reach you includes some fraction that is likely spam. Mail forwarding as enabled within the Virtualmin or DirectAdmin control panel, or as enabled using a '' | ||
| - | If the site that receives this forwarded mail detects spam and rejects it, that will become bounce that our servers will try to return to the original sender. But in most spam, the sender is forged. The bounce will therefore go to some innocent person. This is called [[backscatter]]. Excessive amounts of backscatter may be treated as a type of spam coming from our servers. This may cause our servers to be added to various black lists, causing outgoing mail from our servers to be blocked, and thus causing inconvenience to all users. | + | If the site that receives this forwarded mail detects spam and rejects it, that will become |
| In the [[:Classic Linux]] environment, | In the [[:Classic Linux]] environment, | ||
hints/mail_forwarding.txt · Last modified: 2021/03/08 09:41 by admin
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