Fernando Gleiser wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> action_bounce actually rejects email, so bounce email (if any) is
>> generated by the SENDING MTA. If the email is really spam, this is
>> probably the spambot. Spambots typically won't bother sending bounce
>> emails.
>
> Last january, some bastard sent spam and used my address as the RCPT
> FROM I got more than 300 bounces in 12 hours, ranging all the way
> from the "user unknown" to the "don't send me spam" bounces.
>
> No Sir, I didn't like it. And don't get me started about those
> "you sent me a virus" bounces that some brain-dead antivirus send.
All good reasons to use REJECT rather than generating a bounce. action_bounce
actually does a REJECT, despite the name of the method.
If all the MTAs that the spambot was sending to had used REJECT you would not
have received one single bounce.
Similarly, if the antivirus programs used REJECT (like clamav-milter does, for
example) then you would not receive one single bounce.
Well, maybe one or two. For example, if [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a .forward to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] then you might experience some blowback sent from you to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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