OT: Spam Problems

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Tue Jul 10 12:51:54 UTC 2012



Am 10.07.2012 14:13, schrieb Tim:
> On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 20:13 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
>> Bounces should be sent to the SMTP envelope FROM address, not the
>> address in the header.
> 
> Spam shouldn't be bounced, though.  Even /that/ address will be faked,
> and most likely a forgery of someone else's address, so you will be
> spamming someone with the bounce.

generally a proper configured server NEVER send bounces in any case
it REJECTS with a failure-code and the DELIVERING smtpd is
responsible for sending bounces

* so you do not backscatter
* you do not send mails to forged senders
* you will not lose your reputation

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