yeah, bouncing mail back to spammers usually does nothing (assuming they had a valid from address anyway).
William, if there were such a feature, do you really want to emulate a mail going back form "postmaster" or "mailer-daemon"? On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:06, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > And you think sending the message back to the spammer as if your address > didn't exist would work? haha, guess again. > > If only we could be so lucky. > > Nah, all this does is waste bandwidth. > > Jeff > > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 19:43, William Kenworthy wrote: > > ah, you know that you need control over a server, or a sympathetic > > sysadmin to do server side spam filtering? How about those who do not > > have this, or the skill to set it up? Clientside bounce would be a > > *real* cool user friendly feature these days! > > > > BillK > > > > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 06:59, simran wrote: > > > The bounce youa are refering to is a different type of bounce. > > > > > > One is a "redirect" of the mail (not changing any headers, except > > > possibly adding "Received" headers?) - the other is emulating > > > a server bounce (such as - "a user does not exist")... i think kmail > > > (from memory) has this "server bounce" feature and people use it to > > > "bounce" mail back to spammers, but in my opinion, its not something a > > > mail client (as opposed to a mail server) should be responsible for... > > > > > > simran. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > -- > Jeffrey Stedfast > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com > > > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
