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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:55 pm    Post subject: bounce to relevant address
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I've been testing MW for some time now and I'm 80% happy with it. Rolling Eyes

15 Of the remaining % could be retrieved if MW would recognise the e-mail address a spammer used to reach me and use this address as the "sender" address for the bouncing message. I am responsible for about 12 e-mail addresses and when I want to bounce effectively, I have to change the "sender" e-mail address in the profile for every group of "abused" e-mail addresses. I think this could be done easily (programatically), together with a "no bounce" filter if the "to" field conteigns an address that's not in the "used e-mail addresses" list (in the future to be entered in the options or accounts section).

The last 5% would be won if MW stopped to occasionally freeze my internetconnection. Probably it's a firewall issue, but 1 out of 5 times I have to shut doen my internetconnection after MW processed my mail, before I can receive the mail that's been left on the server (I can't use the internetconnection for surfing too...). Any suggestions?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 10:15 pm    Post subject: re:bounce to relevant address
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I too am very happy with MW. I think the approach marries the best of both worlds - no chance of missing stuff, with the most effective spam resistance.

I Agree with this suggestion. I have mail hosted using the old style mail server where I recieve email for all of the domains that host mail on that server. Most of my spam isn't even directed at me!

I would like MW to trap the address it is sent to. I know that sometimes that is not possible. In those cases I think it would be ideal to have a drop-down with email addresses that one commonly bounces and a text field for those cases when the email address is not in the drop-down list.

This could be done via pop-up or another column in the diplay, but it needs to be on a per message basis. This way one could easily populate the addresses to bounce.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 10:43 pm    Post subject:
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I believe what you're talking about is one of the features that MW is planning on adding soon. It should look at the address in the To field for mailboxes that have multiple aliases, and address the bounce appropriately. Maybe rusticdog can verify?


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:48 am    Post subject:
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This is correct, should be ready for the next release (3.2?)

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 4:06 pm    Post subject:
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I'd love this feature, too!

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 6:28 pm    Post subject: Re: bounce to relevant address
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BartH wrote:
I've been testing MW for some time now and I'm 80% happy with it. Rolling Eyes

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The last 5% would be won if MW stopped to occasionally freeze my internetconnection. Probably it's a firewall issue, but 1 out of 5 times I have to shut doen my internetconnection after MW processed my mail, before I can receive the mail that's been left on the server (I can't use the internetconnection for surfing too...). Any suggestions?
It certainly does sound like a firewall issue. I've heard that there are software firewalls that will actually close the connection for about 30 minutes if it "senses" a virus or something it thinks is an intrusion. If yours is that way, can you shut that feature off?

Good luck.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 4:51 am    Post subject:
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Good ole Norton Internet Security will block access to your mail servr for 30 minutes if it detects some virus activity... but not all virus activity. How wonderful...


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