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Do mail servers and/or spam filters care about a domain's root A record?

I have a domain which I only use for email adresses. I don't host any content there. My provider added an initial A record at the root of my domain which points to a server that delivers a placeholder page. Since I don't care about this placeholder…
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Message Queue building on Barracuda Spam Firewall

I have just installed our new Spam Firewall, and all seemed well. But the Spam Firewall has now decided to put all mail in a message queue and I have no idea how to force it on or anything as there doesn't appear to be anything on the GUI to manage…
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How to configure email server to send lots of transactional emails

My organization is currently outsourcing email delivery to an SMTP service provider. We're considering bringing that back in house to deliver our own emails. We send about 5k transaction emails per day in relation to order confirmations and…
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Exchange 2007 ineffective spam filter

On a pretty clean 2007 setup, I'm seeing A LOT of mail with senders such as : 0.0011a7f8@roman htyme@14009d3cb93848c 0-lz@14009d3cb93848c 0-5-1@home-4fd909062d 0-td@h109-187-48-125.dyn.bashtel.ru All with a spam level rating in the lower range,…
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How can I explain to dspam that the user "brandon" is the same as "brandon@mydomain"

I am using dspam for spam filtering by running the "dspamd" daemon under Ubuntu 9.10 and then setting up a Postfix rule that says: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = ... check_client_access pcre:/etc/postfix/dspam_everything ... where that…
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Combating a persistent spam list

We use Office 365 as our primary mail provider. We have an internal mail server that we use for relaying things like reports from our SSRS, scan to inbox for old scanners, etc. It is an IIS SMTP on server 2008R2. This server is not exposed through…
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Accept or not to accept DKIM signed emails on my smtp server which source DNS don't has signature

In the outgoing emails we use in our domains SPF + DKIM without any problem. But with the inbound emails some time ago we're receiving emails from some of our customers/suppliers signed with DKIM, but they don't have set any public signature on…
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How do I find out what a Spam Custom Rule is?

We use a Barracuda Spam Filter at work, and we also provide a mass emailing program to some of clients that send out newsletters. Lately one of them's been composing his latest company newsletter and has been trying to send preview messages to…
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Exchange 2013 IPBlockListProvider blocking some (but not all) matched IPs

I have configured our Exchange 2013 Edge Transport server to utilize several IPBlockListProviders including Spamhaus. While they work great most of the time, there are still some emails which despite being matched by one of the block list providers…
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Postfix Limit mail for domain from IP range

I have multiple domains and email accounts on my postfix server. All of them get slammed with spam despite all my attempts to get it under control, I broke down and started paying for a pass external spam filtering service. Which helped…
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Postfix - forward rejected by unknown recepients emails to SPAM-learning mailbox

I have Postfix + BitDefender FRAMS running as hygiene gateway before few Exchanges. BD FRAMS can learn it's Baesian filter by download SPAM and HAM emails from dedicated mailboxes. Because we have sustain flow of SPAM to unknown recipients, I have…
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Hosted Anti-Spam Service vs. Anti-Spam Appliance

We're currently using Content Catcher, a hosted spam solution. For less than what we pay them per year, we could purchase an anti-spam appliance to run in house. From a simple dollar perspective, it looks like a no brainer. What are the downsides…
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Allow email from a particular sender through spam filter

We are running exchange 2010 and are using the built in anti-spam feature. We have set up Content Filtering, IP Block List Providers, Sender ID, Sender Reputation and it filters out most of the junk but it also quarantines all emails from one of our…
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Bayesian filtering for Exchange 2010

So here's the deal. Basically, I am looking for a convenient way to get spam from my Exchange 2010 mail server to my spam filter/proxy (whatever you want to call it) in a mail format for SpamAssassin to do its Bayesian filtering (Maildir or Mbox…
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How do you configure sendmail to reject Email with a Date header too far from real time?

A friend of mine using (I believe) qmail has it configured to reject, as SPAM, any incoming Email with a Date: header that is too far from real time. I can't figure out how to do this with sendmail. How do you do this?
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