Re: [exim] Newbie spam bounce retries question (without disc…

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Autor: Nigel Metheringham
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A: Sean Hoggard
CC: exim-users, David Woodhouse
Assumpte: Re: [exim] Newbie spam bounce retries question (without disclaimer)
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:42 +0100, Sean Hoggard wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, I did wonder if this might be the case, I'm
> afraid I do need to bounce messages though, my spam filter sometimes
> identifies mails as spam when they are genuine, in this case the
> sender needs to know there is a problem.
>
> Most spam messages have false addresses anyway, it's usually virus
> infected mails that sometimes have forged addresses in and I don't
> bounce those messages.


This is why you *must* reject them at SMTP time. Sending out bounces
later probably breaks the computer misuse act.

    Nigel.
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