Re: Teergrubing (Was: Bouncing emails via procmail)

2003-09-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:22:05AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Speaking of teergrubing has anyone come up with a method of doing so with > exiscan-acl in Exim4? Now that Andreas compiled it in I'm considering moving > SA processing from sa-exim to exiscan-acl. I can get the temp and permanent

Re: Bouncing emails via procmail

2003-09-10 Thread Neo
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:38, John Hasler wrote: > Paul M Foster writes: > > But I'm wondering if it would be possible to get procmail to actually > > "bounce" email back to senders when it's designated as spam. > > Please _do_ _not_ _do_ _this_. Almost all spam contains forged headers > with val

Re: Bouncing emails via procmail

2003-09-10 Thread Debian User
I do what you are trying to do w/ Exim and the .forward file. The problem is that a lot of the spam originates from bogus email addresses .. lots of email becomes undeliverable and frozen. At Wednesday, 10 September 2003, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Paul M Foster writes: >> But I'

Re: Bouncing emails via procmail

2003-09-10 Thread John Hasler
Paul M Foster writes: > But I'm wondering if it would be possible to get procmail to actually > "bounce" email back to senders when it's designated as spam. Please _do_ _not_ _do_ _this_. Almost all spam contains forged headers with valid domains: your "bounces" will go to some hapless victim su

Teergrubing (Was: Bouncing emails via procmail)

2003-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:16:39 +0100 "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to do something useful and run an MTA, configure it to > teergrube on receipt for spam. Exim4 has several example configs that > do this (by reputation). Every second you hold the connection open > costs

Re: Bouncing emails via procmail

2003-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:57:16PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > Folks: > > > > I'm running Debian Testing, exim and procmail. Probably half my email is > > spam, which procmail dutifully diverts into a spam folder. B

Re: Bouncing emails via procmail

2003-09-09 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:57:16PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > Folks: > > I'm running Debian Testing, exim and procmail. Probably half my email is > spam, which procmail dutifully diverts into a spam folder. But I'm > wondering if it would be possible to get procmail to actually "bounce" > em

Bouncing emails via procmail

2003-09-09 Thread Paul M Foster
Folks: I'm running Debian Testing, exim and procmail. Probably half my email is spam, which procmail dutifully diverts into a spam folder. But I'm wondering if it would be possible to get procmail to actually "bounce" email back to senders when it's designated as spam. I know MTAs can do this,