Re: [exim] Removing a wildcard address

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Author: Ben Giddings
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Removing a wildcard address
On Jan 27, 2005, at 02:58, Michael Dominok wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 22:57, Mike White wrote:
>> Ben Giddings wrote:
>>> Now, one of the addresses I use has started being nothing but spam,
>>> so
>>> I want any email sent to that email address to be bounced. I think I
> If you _bounce_ it you will most propably molest innocent users whose
> eMail-addresses have been hijacked by some spammer/bot.
> It is sensible to _reject_ at SMTP time or do the next best thing.
> That's what Mike suggested: Silently drop the crap.


Believe me, nobody who has this address is an innocent user, I think
there's a decent chance that if I bounce the mail, they'll remove me
from their lists, but I don't think they'll remove me if I ask, or fill
out forms or whatever.

I do really want to bounce the email -- to make it clear that that
address doesn't exist.

Ben