fetchmail-friends
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [fetchmail]Spam filters

2003-12-11 21:04:41

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, "Ted" == Ted Gervais wrote:

  Ted> where unwanted mail will be returned to the sender, or at
  Ted> least sent back to where it came from.  I don't want to
  Ted> have to just delete it here on my system but rather I want
  Ted> it to go back to the people that sent it to me and failing
  Ted> that, at least have it go back to my provider.

That's a really bad idea.   Very little spam has valid sender 
addresses and if the sender IS valid it's probably some other 
random address from the spammer's database.  

All you're going to accomplish is to add more useless traffic 
plus generate delivery failure notices back to yourself.

--Hal




<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>