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BGSWebDesign

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Blacklisted server from spoofed emails?
« on: January 26, 2007, 03:44:37 pm »
Hi,

Has anyone else seen this?  

I've used LMP for years, and don't remember coming up on this.  Just the other day I got a 'BOUNCE REPLY', I hardly ever read them anymore, but I opened this one.

Inside it was a reply from a 'spoofed email', sent from another server, made to look like me (UNLESS, perhaps somehow someone is getting in to my server to send it), and in this message it said that the email was bounced because my server was 'blacklisted'.

So, what I wonder is, HOW can I be blacklisted if this email is spoofed and not from me.  And, if it is NOT spoofed, then how can I identify how someone is getting in to my server?

I've looked around but so far can't track down the original email, post the headers up here if I find it...
Thanks,
-Brett
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Blacklisted server from spoofed emails?
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2007, 04:12:10 pm »
Hi Brett,

I have heard of a couple clients having problems with this.  You may want to try changing your "Bounce to Email" on the ListMail Configuration page.  There are also ways to ignore certain bounces based on keywords.  Change this in bounce.cgi:
Code: [Select]
if($email){
to this, for example:
Code: [Select]
# skip if just a warning
if(index($email,'THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'temporarily deferred')>-1){ exit; }

if($email){

You can add your own ignore lines as desired.  The "lc" parameter makes the entire $email lowercase allowing for a lower-case-insensitive match.

Regards
Dean Wiebe
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