Hello Steve Rothman. At 15:36 -0400 10.07.2001, you wrote:
>(2) My "unknown" account is receiving a lot of junk email for a
>couple former users of the system, and I would prefer not to see it.
>I assume a good way to handle this is to set up an account again for
>the former users, discard the mail as it comes in, and set up an
>auto-reply with some message like "so and so is no longer here,
>please fix your address book, the new address is xxx". Should I try
>to emulate a typical "550 user unknown" message? Should I just write
>something in plain english, although I think 99% of this junk mail
>is automatically generated? Are there any possible pitfalls with
>this strategy?
You could also set the former outdated addresses as a spamtrap. I
suppose, all important mail partners of your former users know that
the user has a new address, but the spammers don't.
Best wishes, Christian.
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