rant...

We've been receiving a good bit of spam from legitimate mail servers with legitimate headers with quote-on-quote "legitimate" content....at least legitimate to our spam filter. Most likely due to a computer with a virus/malware that's using the company's mail server to send the e-mails out (which makes sense since some organizations don't require SMTP authentication when it comes to internal clients).

My boss doesn't like it.

The only commonality I see with these e-mails is that they are to "undisclosed-recipients." I set up our spam filter to mark messages to "undisclosed-recipients" as spam. All was well until my boss couldn't receive mass (marketing) e-mail from our Apple rep. So, I had to remove the rule.

Well, here we are again! My boss is complaining about this, and I brought up the best solution I can think of, which we had in the past, and why we no longer have it. He's in a meeting, so I have to wait for his response.

Anywho, I'm in the mindset that no e-mail should have a blank TO field. Whenever I BCC everybody and don't have a TO recipient, I put myself as the TO (and teach others to do the same). Am I crazy? Is it absurd to assume others should do the same?

 

There are some things that can not be taught to users, this is one.

 

can you not set the same spam filter, but have an exception just for his apple emails?

 

i do not understand the words that are coming out of your e-mouth!

 

I can, but his worry was "If my Apple e-mails get bounced, what other important messages will get bounced?!"

I remembered wrong...I had the messages bounced with a note about needing a TO recipient.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORouZ-qOgg

 

^

just watch that on DVD yesterday , it was good

 

^ The minions were hilarious.

 

You're stupid!
I've seen confidential e-mails sent to undisclosed recipients to make it harder for the recipients to discuss the subject matter with each other.

Here's a silly idea-- what is your company's practice with e-mails?
If no one sends to undisclosed recipients, then tell your boss to suck it up, or register his own personal e-mail for the marketing.
...and thread almost derailed by evil minions!

 

Buy an antispam solution...

 

^ I'd rather learn how to utilize the resources we have than to purchase something. Not to mention I work for a school district and our technology budget has not increased a penny since 1999.

I spent the day learning how to write SpamAssassin rules and have a decent solution for now.