On Monday, Dec 1, 2003, at 12:16 US/Eastern, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:08:49PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:Devin Bayer writes:
Justification:
For more than a year now I have been giving everybody a different email
address and using maildrop to filter all the addresses that start
receiving spam into another folder. Now I get so much spam I don't
carefully read the subjects in that folder, so I thought it was wise to
send DSNs to those sending messages to a blocked address telling them
99 times out of 100 the return address if forged, so you'll be crapping
your bounce into an innocent forgery's victim mailbox (in addition to many
other people who are doing the same).
The only solution I've come up with to this problem is to reject blocked
addresses *before* you close the connecting with the sending mail server,
and the only MTA that can do this nicely that I've found is courier with
the localmailfilter feature.
I don't see how this is morally any better then sending DSNs from the maildrop filtering stage of delivery. They both seem the moral equivalent of the practice of blacklisting some email servers because they send spam. In that case a DSN is sent back to the email sender (faked or real), isn't it? This has the same effect as what I am suggesting. If one's address becomes a drop box for a spammer, I feel sorry for them (it's happened to me), but I don't think this should stop us from rejecting email that seems to spam.
Additionally, I don't think the more complicated solution of using localmailfilter would solve my problem because then I would never receive the email, which, thought I don't read, I archive. It would also be simpler to be able to do it from within my dot-mailfilter file.
Morally, I should inform the legitimate email senders that their message was not received by me. I am essentially rejecting their message by filtering it into a mailbox I will never read.
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