Hei,
Tony Boom wrote:
> OK, now I'm completely confused! Just exactly what do I need to put for?
What aim do you have?
> %FROM=""%FROM="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> %REPLYTO=""%REPLYTO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> Couldn't I just make a couple of bogus From and Reply to addresses?
Where do you know that they're bogus? When I correctly interpret David's
note, his postmaster address doesn't exist (which is a violation of RFCs,
but I'm not sure about that; I think it's at least recommended that some
basic role accounts are defined and active). E.g. take [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lot's of people have that. Where do you know that this is an invalid mail
address? In fact, you can never be sure. If you send out mail with that
from address, the postmaster of nomail.com will get the bounces. If you
use a domain name which doesn't exist, it's easy to filter out these
messages.
> Or even use the original addresses so that it bounces around on the
> originating server?
What original addresses do you mean? The one in the from? Well, in 99% of
the spam this address hasn't anything to do with the spammer, is closed
down when you reply to your spam or "quota exceeded". In all three cases
you create unnecessary traffic. You just get the originating servers when
analyzing the headers, which is not too easy and this can't be made by TB!
I don't know if you want to use your bounces to avoid spam mails. But if
you do - it won't help. It's better to read the spam faqs and report spam
to the provider where it originated -> normally not the provider you see
in the from field.
PS: As this is neither tbbeta nor tbtech, f'up: poster from me, please.
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