Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Saturday 2007-06-23 at 00:51 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote: > > ... > >> Now, lets think about the most common mail that will likely end up in that >> situation: yes, I am talking about spam and viruses. (^-^) >> They always falsify the sender address. So if you send back a copy of the >> mail, you will turn into an excellent backscatter source. > > Which reminds me that amavis-new and/or fetchmail sometimes can bounce > messages in full or partially. And reminds me that I have to check and > verify this. > > However... bounce messages with full headers are sometimes very useful, > for instance, to learn which is the subscribed address to this list that > is bouncing. There are some bouncers I have seen that do not copy even the > subject line, nor the sended-to address.
Unfortunately there are a lot of broken bouncers out there. As a general rule I don't mind if messages from my internal users bounce. They are authenticated, exist and want to receive bounces. But I do my very best to only accept mails that I can also deliver. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
