Hey Gerard, My MUA believes 'The Bat! (v1.62h) Business' was used to write mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 5:05:00 AM.
>>> Also I have seen that with a bounce you can have a 500 error >>> (address unknown) but also 544 error, (You are black listed). Are >>> there anymore that I could use? JA>> That really depends... a lot of the messages you can customize. G> That's true but these are official errors as defined in RFC's. (They G> should be 550 and 554 :() ,----- [ From ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2821.txt ] | | 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable | (e.g., mailbox not found, no access, or command rejected | for policy reasons) |====8<---------------- snip | 554 Transaction failed (Or, in the case of a connection-opening | response, "No SMTP service here") `----- However, I have at least one SMTP server on my PC that I can make it say anything I want it to.... (I have not tried on the others) G> When you bounce a msg you want it to look as good and permanent as G> possible. The 'bounces' that I have read that spammers pay attention to are the ones from the SMTP session (read connecting to a SMTP server) level, so unless you have one you can control, it doesn't help much... G> Most spammers use software that will automaticly take you of the list G> if they get a "correct" hard bounce. Again, that is the opposite of what I have read about (and seen). Spammers use temporary or even just plain fake ID's and don't worry about all the SMTP overhead of not having a valid return address for the SMTP servers to deliver to... -- Tim Musson Flying with The Bat! eMail v1.62 Christmas Edition Windows 2000 5.0.2195 (Service Pack 2) Stare at people. It�s cheap entertainment. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
