Re[2]: Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread Matt Cahill
Friday, January 24, 2003, 3:00:31 PM, you wrote: G> ON Friday, January 24, 2003, 4:17:49 PM, you wrote: MC>> I run Linux at home, and Kmail comes with a nice, official-looking MC>> Bounce feature...looking at that, I don't see why one couldn't MC>> create a special Reply rule with TB! where

Re: Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread Gerard
ON Friday, January 24, 2003, 4:17:49 PM, you wrote: MC> I run Linux at home, and Kmail comes with a nice, official-looking MC> Bounce feature...looking at that, I don't see why one couldn't MC> create a special Reply rule with TB! whereas if an offending email MC> arrives, a "bounce" messag

Re: Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Matt, on Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:04:22 -0500GMT (24.01.03, 17:04 +0100GMT here), you wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : MC>One more thing: if you like I could send you a "bounced" message MC>from KMail when I get home this weekend, so you can see what it MC>looks like

Re: Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Roelof, My MUA believes 'The Bat! (v1.62 Christmas Edition) Personal' was used to write [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Friday, January 24, 2003 at 10:51:40 AM. RO> Depending on the knowledge of your unwanted correspondent, it RO> might be a nice touch to put his own address in th

Re[2]: Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread Matt Cahill
Friday, January 24, 2003, 10:17:49 AM, I wrote: MC> Hello ~John, MC> I run Linux at home, and Kmail comes with a nice, official-looking MC> Bounce feature...looking at that, I don't see why one couldn't MC> create a special Reply rule with TB! whereas if an offending email MC> arrives, a

Re: Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread Roelof Otten
Hallo ~John, On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:58:32 -0600GMT (24-1-03, 15:58 +0100GMT, where I live), you wrote: > For example, if there is a certain person that I no longer wish to > receive mail from, can I bounce all of his messages to me? Yep. Create a filter for his messages with the action "Send Aut

Re: Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread Nick Gordon
Hi Batpersons, On or about, Friday, January 24, 2003, 2:58:32 PM, we have reason to believe that ~John wrote: ~> I simply want to know if it is possible to "fake" a bounced e-mail from ~> theBat! ? Why not create an autoreply template which shows sender as [EMAIL PROTECTED], and a filter to us

Re: Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread Matt Cahill
Friday, January 24, 2003, 9:58:32 AM, you wrote: ~> I have searched the archives and all I can find are arguments over ~> "should you bounce" or "should you not bounce", "does it help" or ~> "not" ~> I simply want to know if it is possible to "fake" a bounced e-mail from ~> theBat! ? ~> I do not

Can you Bounce Mail with theBat! ?

2003-01-24 Thread ~John
I have searched the archives and all I can find are arguments over "should you bounce" or "should you not bounce", "does it help" or "not" I simply want to know if it is possible to "fake" a bounced e-mail from theBat! ? I do not want to use it as a Spam fighting tool, so I could care less about th

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Mean, On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:44:44 +0530 GMT (04/12/02, 22:14 +0700 GMT), Mean Drake wrote: >> Definitely yes! RFCs not only recommend, but require postmaster@ being >> a active and read address per domain. >> > What about [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFC 2142 is the one you want to check out. -- C

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Johannes Posel
Dear Simon, On 17:48 04.12.2002, you [Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])] wrote... > Fair enough. So basically you are saying that even though 'the bounce' may > work on occasion with Mailwasher it is no more than a gimmick as it would be > obvious to anyone that it was not a genuine bounced message be

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'Lo Johannes, On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:35:41 +0100 your time, you said: JP> Plus, every message that *YOU* generate and send will be different from JP> a real bounce, both generated at receive time by a negative recipient JP> verify, or by your

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Johannes Posel
Dear Mean, On 16:14 04.12.2002, you [Mean Drake ([EMAIL PROTECTED])] wrote... > What about [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basically, since your mail client tries to imitate a bounce but does not supply a NULL <> sender to the mail server, it does change nothing but generates a whole bunch more of load onto M

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Johannes Posel
Dear Simon, On 15:58 04.12.2002, you [Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])] wrote... > Huh? What are you on about exactly? To speak on a bit more ironical terms, the fact that my mail server accepts mails from you is a priviledge, not a right. Please don't think it is targeted at you, you're just an exa

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Mean Drake
- Original Message - From: "Simon" Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: Re: Bounce Mail > > Perhaps the people tugging at their locks over the idea of Mailwasher > bouncing messages should grab a copy, being as it is free, and investigat

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Mean Drake
- Original Message - From: "Peter Palmreuther" Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Bounce Mail > Hello Mean, > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 4:56:49 AM you [MD] wrote (at least > in part): > First a small thanks for an exhaustive

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'Lo Johannes, On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:21:02 +0100 your time, you said: JP> I think it is a good time to remember everyone that eMail is a JP> *priviledge*, not a right. Mind you, there are still providers that do JP> not offer you a mailbox

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Johannes Posel
Dear Simon, On 14:35 04.12.2002, you [Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])] wrote... > at all significant, and if a postmaster is going to whine about the > occassional bounced message they've he or she has spend far too much time > tracing back to a local Mailwasher user then well, what can

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Johannes Posel
Dear Peter, On 11:07 04.12.2002, you [Peter Palmreuther ([EMAIL PROTECTED])] wrote... > But there the problem is located: ISP can't direct the double bounces > to the originator and they can't fire all customers. So the result is: They can fine the customers for sending out mails with a forged f

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Johannes Posel
Dear Mean, On 04:46 04.12.2002, you [Mean Drake ([EMAIL PROTECTED])] wrote... > You misunderstand. The bounced mail seems to be formatted differently > from other replies. It is made to look as if it came from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and unless one really analyses the header...well > it works. I know

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'Lo Peter, On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:07:00 +0100 your time, you said: PP> ... this "faking bounces" ain't "fighting spam" even in the slightest PP> way. It has nothing in common with any successful "spam fighting PP> technology", the effect

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'Lo Mark, On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:24:29 -0800 your time, you said: MW> Are you suggesting that there is a way to prevent Mailwasher from doing MW> this? No, I wasn't suggesting it, but as the question has been asked, yes, you can easily prevent Mail

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Julian Beach (Lists)
On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 10:07:00 AM, Peter Palmreuther wrote: > I'm sorry for being forced to disillusionate you, but this "faking > bounces" ain't "fighting spam" even in the slightest way. It has > nothing in common with any successful "spam fighting technology", the > effect of bounces

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-04 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Mean, On Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 4:56:49 AM you [MD] wrote (at least in part): >> So I, as postmaster, would be receiving bounce messages from users who >> have been spoofing my return address and routing? That'll get them >> kicked off the system as fast as I can dig up my logs. >

Re[2]: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Wieder
its incorporation into TB, which renders me properly aghast. S> has ever complained about the way it bounces messages, until now. I suspect S> that Mailwasher's apparent popularity and success would have been quickly S> arrested if the methods it employs to bounce mail were rejec

Re[3]: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Mean Drake
Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 7:55:00 AM, you wrote: > Great. > So I, as postmaster, would be receiving bounce messages from users who > have been spoofing my return address and routing? That'll get them > kicked off the system as fast as I can dig up my logs. With the number of bounced message

Re[4]: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Mean Drake
Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 3:27:39 AM, you wrote: > And a bounce is also good for having spambots validate e-mail addresses > depending on the routing path of the bounce. If The_Bat! was the > bouncer it shows the mail bounced from The_Bat!'s receiver address, > back through your ISP's SMTP se

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Simon
ion about it, fine, but I didn't design Mailwasher, I use it, and as far as I know no one has ever complained about the way it bounces messages, until now. I suspect that Mailwasher's apparent popularity and success would have been quickly arrested if the methods it employs to bounce mail

Re[2]: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Simon- Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 2:35:17 PM, you wrote: >> How does MailWasher bounce messages? A. MailWasher uses an algorithm to >> determine the best route to send the bounced message back (from, reply to, >> return path) and actually sends the bounce back via your ISP's postmaster, >> so

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'Lo DG, On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:57:39 -0500 your time, you said: DRS> And a bounce is also good for having spambots validate e-mail addresses DRS> depending on the routing path of the bounce. This is how you DRS> plan to stop spam in your inbox? N

Re[3]: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread DG Raftery Sr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:51:44 PM RE: "Bounce Mail" Greetings Mean, On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 1:42:26 PM, you wrote: MD> Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 11:41:28 PM, you wrote: >> * Mean Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re[2]: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Mean Drake
Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 11:41:28 PM, you wrote: > * Mean Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> One feature I would like is to have TB bounce my mail. > Why? It sometimes helps to have your email removed from spam lists. I agree a lot of addresses from where spam originates are fake but from

Re: Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Carsten Thönges
* Mean Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One feature I would like is to have TB bounce my mail. Why? -- Best regards, Carsten Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Bounce Mail

2002-12-03 Thread Mean Drake
One feature I would like is to have TB bounce my mail. Mailwasher does it effortlessly...generates a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and mails it back to the recipient...TB should be able to handle it without losing sleep about it. Anyway to do it using Macros or scripts? -- Best regards, Mean