Hi, Jeff On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:44:33 -0700 in message [email protected], from Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> received here at 06/07/2011 22:54:39 It was said:
> On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:48:26 pm Bill Hayles wrote: > > > Not necessarily. There are several end-user anti-spam packages, such as > > Mailwasher, which will bounce rejected mail and make it appear that the > > mail was never delivered. > > Nope. Once the mail has been received by the server, there's no way to tell > the sending server you won't accept it; you already have. Agreed; I appreciate the difference. > > > As I wrote above, it's worse than dubious. It's dangerous, and will > eventually get you listed on blocklists; maybe even mine. Since I don't do it, I'm glad to say that I won't trigger it. > > > I know I only run a very small server, but the volume of > > mail received by what I term "blunderbuss attacks" far exceeds spam to > > genuine addresses. By blunderbuss what I mean is that the spammer > > obviously has a list of common user names - [email protected], > > [email protected] etc, and sends mail in the hope that the address exists. > > With large mail servers, they probably do. For a domain and server with > > 25 or so accounts, very often they don't, but they still arrive despite > > the bounces. > > They arrive at your gate, but unless you've got a catchall address > implemented > for each domain, they don't get further. It's for that very reason that I don't have a catchall address. > > > This is Spain. We do things differently here! > > You sure do <smile>! Try telling that to some of my Expat mailing list members, at whom that signature is aimed. What about this? -- 'Tis far better to have snipped too much than to never have snipped at all. -- (author unknown) Bill Hayles [email protected] -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
