[NCLUG] anti-spam warfare

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:03:30PM -0700, Mike Loseke wrote:
>sender but I get a bounce if (when) the sender's email doesn't exist. I
>just envisioned a filter which holds the "enemy" MTA hostage while

I am running QMail with a "badrcptto" patch.  I specify a list of known
bad addresses, and the SMTP daemon will reject attempts to deliver mail
to them.  Bounces are generated on the remote MTA, not mine, so I don't
have to deal with it when somone has typed in an invalid return address
as well.

Sean
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