[BC] Internet blackmail or stupidity? Barracuda users, especially, note!

[Tom Spencer]

Related Issue:

Yahoogroups is no longer passing third-party ISPs..For example:  While I 
use Gmail for incoming mail - with reply-to the gmail address in the 
header - the actual outgoing server is my ISP - Earthlink.net   However, 
I also have used my OWN domain - RadioXTZ.com - and still get the error 
message from Yahoo.  I've switched several of my Yahoo memberships to my 
RadioXTZ.com email to get around the problem, but others, for whatever 
reason (mostly traffic volume and email sizes) have to remain via direct 
Yahoo-to-Gmail.  And while I could use Gmail's SMTP server, if it goes 
out via Gmail's servers, then Gmail thinks it's already been read, and 
it won't download to Thunderbird.  Hence, I don't know if the email 
reached its intended destination listserv, because the echoback never 
gets past Gmail.

<sigh>

One solution might be for everyone to thoroughly check the header and/or 
actual URLs of any links - and maybe backtrack offending spammers, bots, 
virii, and trojans and slag the originating system...

Or at least *not* click through / reply to suspicious emails.  (T-bird 
will display the actual target URL in the status line at the bottom of 
the screen, so you can see where it's going to go before you click.)

Barry Mishkind wrote:
> Does your company or ISP use "barracuda?"
> Does your company lose a lot of incoming email?
>
> Is there a solution?
>
> As many of you know, there are spam problems with the Internet. Up to 98.5% of all email is bogus. Which creates a big problem.

> Thanks for your attention.

-- 
Tom Spencer