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Re: SPAM headers.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 18 04:51:44 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:52:58 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <36527F44.CD5CBB79@nook.net>; from Ramon Gandia on Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 11:03:16PM -0900
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Ramon Gandia writes:
[...]=20
> I would not want Spam to bounce back to the sender. If it
> does, they would get savvy. If it is a bogus address, then
> the bounces are going to bounce ad nauseam. I think it is
> best to treat it like all junk mail: /dev/null.
>=20
> But I will look at procmail and see what it can do for me. And
> see if it works with Qmail.
I use procmail in conjunction with a "stealth address" (i.e. a second mail
address from one of those free forwarding providers) which I only use for
mailing lists and usenet) to bounce everything back which arrives via that
address without being addressed to that address (i.e. the To: od Cc: lines
do not contain my "stealth address"). In addition, I have a "whitelist" for
my friends addresses to make sure their Bcc mails arrive unharmed and to
exempt mailing list mails from that rule (obviously...).
Over the past months, that combination had a success rate of 99%, i.e. all
bounced messages were indeed spam except for one (where I forgot to add it
to the whitelist...). None of the bounced mails bounced back to me.
Just my =A30.02,
Thomas
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