Author: Jeroen van Aart Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam
Ian Eiloart wrote: > You've missed the point. An OoO reply to a spam message will almost
I don't think I missed it.
> If I send you a message, and I get an auto-reply from you, of course
> that's not spam. If I get 1000 autoreplies per day, in response to a
> message that I didn't send, then that's spam.
Not necessarily. Because each message is sent by a different auto
replier. From your perspective it may feel like spam (ugh ;-) it can't
be pinpointed to one person who is sending you all this. Unless of
course you could blame the spammer for the backscatter caused by spam.
Which I guess isn't as easy, seeing it is already hard to at least
legally blame spammer.
> It can be, if used with caution. You need to have a very good spam
> filter in front of it.
I found it needs no filter in order to work right. Also I must see the
first case where someone gets 1000s of auto replies due to this.
