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 at 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. > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110831/72e5e04e/attachment-0005.html>