Re: [Exim] Blocking spam bounces?

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Author: Enkidu
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To: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Blocking spam bounces?
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:28:30 -0400, you wrote:

The real answer is to persuade AOL NOT to bounce SPAM, viruses and
worms to what is almost certainly an invalid address.

[given that it seems impossible to stop users leaving their machines
wide open to SPAM, viruses and wrorms!]

Cheers,

Cliff

>
>Listening to conversations at work it seems we're being hit by some
>annoying spam. The spammer connects to a major known site such as
>aol.com:25, identifies himself as me then sends spam to
>aashalkjhsj@???. Of course I read the message to see what
>I sent that bounced to me from AOL where I have friends and family.
>
>One suggestion brought up was to run spamassassin or such before
>checking for the bounce. If the email is spam drop it first, if it's
>not spam then continue to try and deliver or bounce depending on the
>case.
>
>Is it possible to implement such a change of order in exim?
>

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