Traditional auto-responders • Misdirected bounces • Challenge/response spam filtering • Why not allow bounces? • Mitigation techniques?
Lately, people find their automatic responses are being reported as spam or blocked. These “auto-responders” respond indiscriminately to forged and legitimate email. Spam and virus messages are almost invariably forged so as to appear to be “from” an unrelated third party. When an auto-responder receives one of these forged messages, they in turn send misdirected mail. Because of this, they become spam sources themselves and are the subject of blockades. There are several types of email, detailed below, which we refer to generally as “autoresponders”.
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- Traditional auto-responders • Misdirected bounces • Challenge/response spam filtering • Why not allow bounces? • Mitigation techniques?
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