On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > Is there a way to discard the message? since he is one our employees, the > > bounce message generated by exim will go back to him (our server) - so he > > (the sending user ) will wind up with the bounce message every hour wouldnt > > he?- > > >That's outside the scope of SA, take a look at your MTA. It is > >considered very bad practice to generate a bounce message for spam. > >Are you talking about a reject during the SMTP conversation? > > Yes, I believe that's what I'm referring to- the one that says > > "Congratulations your message has scored x.x points blah blah blah,"-
That's still not enough to tell. A "reject" occurs during the conversation between the MTAs, and will usually result in the *sending* MTA generating a notice along the lines of: We could not deliver your message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Log of conversation: >> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> << OK >> DATA << 5.0.0 Message looks like spam. A "bounce" occurs after the receiving MTA has accepted the message for delivery, and is a new email message from the *receiving* MTA that looks like "Your message was not delivered because ..." Generally, bouncing (the receiver generating a response email) is NOT a good idea when processing spam. This leads to "Joe Jobs". Rejecting is acceptable, because the sending shouldn't be an open relay and thus should only notify legitimate senders about non-delivery. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ...to announce there must be no criticism of the President or to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonous to the American public. -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 days until Bill of Rights day
