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Re: Standard reply for bounced forgeries from clueless admins?

2004-06-10 13:54:20
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Jonathan Gardner wrote:

How about this:

Your email server sent a bounce message to my server. Since I did not send a 
message to your server, this is considered unsolicited mail or spam. 
Attached is the message I received. 

If it was actually a bounce message, there wouldn't be a problem.  It
would be automatically discarded.  Unfortunately, the anti-virus scumbags
send a reply, not a bounce.

But for actual bounces, I could perhaps reference the standard
message as an URL in the 550 error.  I.e. instead of:

      self.setreply('550','5.7.1',"spoofed reply address")
use
      self.setreply('550','5.7.1',"I did not send you this message: see 
http://...";)

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