Thanks for the quick response Scott. Just one missed e-mail is time sensetive, and could mean a lot of money to my company, so notification to legitimate folks is vital.
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 14:43, R. Scott Perry wrote: > > >I apologize if this has already been discussed at length. First, we > >started bouncing spam about a week ago. I'm concerned about bouncing to > >made up return addresses that turn out to be legitimate, innocent, > >e-mail accounts. I'm also concerned about bogging down my server with > >bounced bounce messages. Will this significantly slow down my server? > > That's exactly why we recently added "DO NOT USE THIS ACTION unless you > understand FULLY that spammers will NEVER receive the bounce message." to > the information about the BOUNCE action in the manual. :) > > Don't worry about slowing down your server. What you need to worry about > is whether the benefit of sending the bounce messages to "good" people > (legitimate mailers with problems that they need to know about) will > outweigh the drawbacks of sending them to the "bad" people (spammers who > use fake return addresses). In most cases, it isn't worth using the BOUNCE > action (it is worth it if a test catches a lot of legitimate mail but > little spam; if that's the case, though, it probably shouldn't be used as a > spam test). > > >Lastly, I would also like to send a custom bounce message per domain, > >but I've noticed that Declude doesn't recognize .eml files anywhere but > >in the main Declude folder. Can we hope to see a per domain bounce .eml > >in future versions? > > That's something that is in the suggestion database (you aren't the first > to ask), but I don't know yet if/when it will get added. > -Scott > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
