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

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Author: Sean Hoggard
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To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: exim-users, David Woodhouse
Subject: Re: [exim] Newbie spam bounce retries question (without disclaimer)
I think I may be missing something, how do I inform people that their
mail has been rejected as a likely spam, with the best will in the
world, no spam filter is going to be 100% accurate


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:48:54 +0100, Nigel Metheringham
<nigel.metheringham@???> wrote:
> 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.
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>        Nigel.
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> [ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham@??? ]
> [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

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