On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:09:58PM +0100, Jamie L. Penman-Smithson wrote:
> 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?
No, I mean spam to existing local addresses, but I want to simulate to
the probe mail that the user is invalid. I don't care about the error
message, could also be no such domain etc..
The thing is I believe in this probe emails. They have no subject (or
just "hi") and an empty body. I attached some examples.
Take Care,
Clemens
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