Spam filter that'll authorize the sending before receiving? Just a thought to stop the hundreds of emails...
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:27 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
Here's a thought I just thunk, folks: some scum, apparently in eastern Europe, has harvested my email, and is using it in the Reply-To: in its spamming efforts. Now, I realize that some mails go out from noreply, but other than that, is there a good reason why a mailserver would not be configured to send delivery failure to *both* Reply-To and From?
You don't want to send rejects to more than one address 'cos you then have a simple message multiplier; send one message, generate two bounces; the mail server will be doubling the back-scatter problem!
Anyway, the SMTP server should send the delivery failure to the envelope address, which may be different to both the From and Reply-To addresses.
That would be lovely. Unfortunately, a high percentage seem to use the Reply-To address. Trust me, the last four or five months, I've gotten probably hundreds, if not more, of delivery failures. And I wind up at least glancing at them, in case email to this list, or to a friend, has bounced.
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