I have been spending way too much time writing a sales pitch to some of
the thousands of bounced forgeries I get from stupid mail scanning
software. I have enclosed one such reply. There needs to be a way
to automate this. For starters, I want to start using a canned sales
pitch to save time. Does anyone already have a simple text file with
such a pitch?
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:09:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
To: ITSupport(_dot_)Helpdesk(_at_)tfeurope(_dot_)com
Subject: Forged email
In-Reply-To:
<200406101706(_dot_)i5AH6tBn032635(_at_)spidey(_dot_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Message-ID:
<Pine(_dot_)LNX(_dot_)4(_dot_)44(_dot_)0406101402130(_dot_)19732-100000(_at_)bmsred(_dot_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 mime(_at_)tfeurope(_dot_)com wrote:
An e-mail addressed to 'vans(_at_)tfn(_dot_)com' from
'stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com' with the
subject of 'Mail Delivery (failure vans(_at_)tfn(_dot_)com)' was blocked due
to
possible virus or an attachment type that is regarded as unsafe
Virii lie about who sent them. It only annoys innocent bystanders to send
this kind of message. At the very least, send such messages as MAIL FROM:
<> or MAIL FROM: <postmaster(_at_)tfeurope(_dot_)com>. That way, I can
automatically
discard them when they reference messages our mail servers did not send.
Also, do yourself a favor and look at SPF:
http://spf.pobox.com
You can help prevent the same thing happening to you by publishing SPF
records. And you can avoid annoying as many innocent bystanders by
checking SPF records for mail that you receive.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.