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

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