Scott Ragen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18/01/2007 10:18:30 AM:
And then people start getting bounced messages for emails they didn't
even send (faked from address) which adds to the spam. IMHO spam should
not be bounced.
Not bounced, rejected. This means the sending mta sends the rejected email
back to the user, so it wouldn't get caught in the spam trap[1].
At least if the email is rejected, the user knows that the recipient
didn't see it. If its lost in the spam box, then the sender wouldn't know
if it was received or not.
Cheers,
Scott
[1] Depending on the email setup.
True it won't get caught in the trap, but in some cases this would
generate more spam for the "sender" still. There are not that many end
users who interact at the MTA level. The rejecting MTA refuses to accept
the mail and tells the sending MTA so, the sending MTA then generates a
refused delivery message to the sender who never knew about the original
email in the first place because the sender address was forged. So
someone has still got spam.
Fil
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