Re[2]: Bounce Mail
Simon- Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 6:53:24 PM, you wrote: S> There's no need to be so sarcastic :-/ If you have an opinion about it, S> fine, but I didn't design Mailwasher, I use it, and as far as I know no one Ah, but you did tout the "feature" and recommend its incorporation into TB, which renders me properly aghast. S> has ever complained about the way it bounces messages, until now. I suspect S> that Mailwasher's apparent popularity and success would have been quickly S> arrested if the methods it employs to bounce mail were rejected/frowned upon S> by ISPs...I'd have expected some noise on the Net by now if that were the S> case! Well, I, for one, wasn't aware that Mailwasher could get away with pulling off this dastardly deed. I wonder what postmaster@say,for_example,earthlink.net would have to say about it? Are you suggesting that there is a way to prevent Mailwasher from doing this? ...besides, if I couldn't be sarcastic here I'd have to find another list to hang out in... -Mark Wieder Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 -- Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Bounce Mail
Simon- Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 2:35:17 PM, you wrote: >> How does MailWasher bounce messages? A. MailWasher uses an algorithm to >> determine the best route to send the bounced message back (from, reply to, >> return path) and actually sends the bounce back via your ISP's postmaster, >> so it looks exactly like it has come from your ISP and not from you at >> your address. If the spammer has used a fake address, then your bounce >> message will itself be bounced back to the postmaster and you won't >> receive the bounced bounce email. S> ...I suspect that the nice folk at RITLABS wouldn't find it too difficult S> either S> In fact, I added this as a feature request to be added to the Mail S> 'Dispatcher', among others :) Great. So I, as postmaster, would be receiving bounce messages from users who have been spoofing my return address and routing? That'll get them kicked off the system as fast as I can dig up my logs. Obviously you looked up "feature" in a different dictionary from the one I use. -Mark Wieder Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 -- Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Bounce Mail
Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 11:41:28 PM, you wrote: > * Mean Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> One feature I would like is to have TB bounce my mail. > Why? It sometimes helps to have your email removed from spam lists. I agree a lot of addresses from where spam originates are fake but from what sppam I receive, a majority of the addresses are genuine. I don't to mail in unsubscribe-me mails and a bounce is usually good enough to delete you from their database. What is lost anyway. I used to do it using Mailwasher but it is a pain to open one program, review the headers and bounce or delete mails and then open the default email client and receive the rest of it. -- Best regards, Mean Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
