On Aug 10, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: > I get a deal of spam, and have to check it all to make sure that there are no > legitimate messages in there. > > I decided to get clever and set up an auto reply for all messages received > from those not among my previous recipients, offering real people the chance > to contact me by other means. So now, in place of the spam, I get a host of > failure messages when my automatic reply hits invalid addresses. > > Is there any way of replying automatically to incoming message using an > address other that that to which the message was sent? > > There was an auto-reply script for Mail, but it died when X came in.
There are a number of commercial services, like Boxbe, that do this. Challenge/response systems are considered harmful: http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html For one thing, much spam is sent "from" forged addresses, so your system ends up simply adding to the spam load of people who have already been victimized. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
