Re: [exim] Using Exim ACL to blackhole bounce messages

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Author: John Robinson
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To: Sebastian Berm
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Using Exim ACL to blackhole bounce messages
On 16/12/2006 13:08, Sebastian Berm wrote:
> My problem with rejecting them, is that the 'source mail servers' are
> following the 'rules' for processing rejected e-mail, and will retry
> again later.

[...]
> (we rejected with 'temporary local problem')


Well, don't do that; reject permanently, and they should never try
again. You can issue a message like "congratulations! your message
scored X in our spam filters", too. It won't make much difference to
spammers, but any real users' messages which hit your spam filters will
get bounced back to them - by *their* mail server - so at least they
know the message didn't get through, and why.

Cheers,

John.