On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:07:25PM +0200, Marcin Krol wrote:
> Dave Evans pisze:
> > This is fine, but ONLY if you send the message to the correct person, which is
> > usually NOT <$sender_address>. Alas in most environments you won't know who
> > to send it to!
> >
> > Do NOT automatically send messages to <$sender_address>!
> Well of course that would generate mostly backscatter (or "collateral
> spam" if that's the correct term for this trick used by spammers). I
> meant SMTP time which should be safe regarding no backscatter.
Err, but earlier you said:
> So I need to blackhole the message myself (do accept, not deny) and
> generate another message myself and send it during SMTP time with 5xx code.
Oh, now I see the confusion. You've said both that you want to accept the
message, and also that you want to reply at SMTP time with a 5xx code - which
are of course mutually exclusive goals.
Well as long as you don't generate backscatter I'm sure whatever you pick will
be fine :-)
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