----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Palmreuther" Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Bounce Mail
> Hello Mean, > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 4:56:49 AM you [MD] wrote (at least > in part): > First a small thanks for an exhaustive review of bouncing from a postmaster's point of view. > > Definitely yes! RFCs not only recommend, but require postmaster@ being > a active and read address per domain. > What about [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also since I run my own SMTP server, none of my bounced mails are ever going to reach my ISPs postmaster or MAILER-DAEMON email account. In that case this should not bother tham should it. > I'm sorry for being forced to disillusionate you, but this "faking > bounces" ain't "fighting spam" even in the slightest way. It has > nothing in common with any successful "spam fighting technology", the > effect of bounces and faked bounces on amount of spam is near to zero, > not measurable. > If you want flexibility in fighting spam make use of RBLs and systems > like SpamAssassin (like!!! there might be others that work in a > similar fashion. I don't want to break it down on SA being "the > one"!). I couldn't agree more with you here. But where I stay, I am sorry to say the spammers are not professional at all and bouncing messages works very well for me. Its recently that I have become lazier and do not use mailwasher that spam has started getting back to me. So what works for me is something that I was looking ways to implement which started my query of whether it was possible to do it using TB. -- Mean. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
