On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 12:15:19AM -0500, Jack McKinney wrote:
> Maybe. If the email is rejected AFTER being accepted by your mail
> server, then your mail server will bounce it based on the headers.
> If it is rejected at the SMTP port of your server (as is typical of
> the relay checking methods such as RBL and ORBS), then the sending mail
> server will generate the bounce. This won't triple bounce at IBM, it
> will triple bounce to _itself_.
You're assuming that mail is getting injected locally. In the vast majority
of spam, it's not. It's getting injected from a throwaway dialup client to
an open relay via SMTP.
--Adam
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