On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:53, Krammer Clemens wrote:
> wouldn't it be good to bounce some spam with a "550 No such user" error
> to be removed from spamlists? I'm getting probe mails from hotmail.com
> and msn.com and I want to try it out.
> 
> Also it came to my mind that the could probe through a delivery
> notification? And there are probably more "valid address probe" methods
> they use...

I assume you mean spam to non-existent local addresses?

That should be the default - i.e. mail to address which don't exist
should be rejected at the MTA level with a 550 (go away and never come
back), otherwise it puts extra load on your MTA trying to send bounces
and such.

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