Spamassassin bounce mail

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by tijn_tux, Jan 25, 2007.

  1. tijn_tux

    tijn_tux New Member

    Hi all,

    is it possible to send a mail to a host that sends spam?


    Like, someone mails, but its classified as spam by my spamassassin, i want to drop the mail, but also send a mail to the sender.

    Is this possible, and if so, how do i do this?

    Thnx in advance

    tijn
     
  2. martinfst

    martinfst Member Moderator

    Very bad idea nowadays. This is called backscatter and is considered to be even worse then spamming.

    Because most spam e-mail you get are sent by either innocent users who's PC's are infected with some kind of spambot, or the return address is a fake address and you will only bother someone who never send the SPAM email, either knowingly or innocent.

    If you want, just ditch SPAM to /dev/null, but be aware for false positives. But don't try to inform spammers. Waste of time and resources.
     
  3. tijn_tux

    tijn_tux New Member

    Ah, that makes sense :)

    thnx m8!
     
  4. tijn_tux

    tijn_tux New Member

    And :)

    Spam can be accepted and denied, is it possible that spam is beeing dropped in its own mailbox?

    thnx tijn
     
  5. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Currently not.
     

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