Block auto-replies to spam

[Henrik K]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:42:25AM +0300, Henrik K wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:07:39PM -0300, francis picabia wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Mark Martinec
> > <Mark.Martinec+amavis at ijs.si> wrote:
> > 
> > > So your outbound bounces are generated by a content filter
> > > associated with a user's mailbox (like sieve) ???
> > > Probably not the best idea. If it is spam, it should not be bounced.
> > > Let a user just delete it, if it gets delivered.
> > 
> > Much of it comes from "out of office" set up on Exchange.
> > I have no control over the users in this regard.
> > They feel it is worthwhile to let the small number
> > of real email senders know of alternate addresses
> > to contact while they are away on vacation, etc.
> 
> Yes this is normal in a big gateway environment. It's not possible to
> control lame autoresponders and out of offices.
> 
> I made a crude script long time ago just for this purpose:
> 
> http://hege.li/contrib/amavisd-new/autoreply.conf
> 
> Feel free to modify it. You might want to discard/quarantine directly
> instead of setting a header etc.

Btw I've also setup so that all bounces etc go through a dedicated IP
address, so they won't generate blacklistings and such on the main MX. 
Something to consider.