Re: [Evolution] bounce

[William Pietri <william scissor com>]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 13:03, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> søn, 2003-02-09 kl. 14:51 skrev Reg HUGHSON:
>
> > Is there a way to have evolution bounce mail back to the source and make
> > it appear that it was never received?
>
> However and in whatever manner you you would wish to distort this, the
> receiving mail server has already given a "receipt" at the moment it
> either accepts (250) or discards (550) the sender or the data.

That depends on the mail server. Some are more inclined to accept a
piece of mail and bounce it later; some reject it immediately.

So the original poster could certainly forge a plausible bounce message.
If the goal is to fool a human correspondent, that might work. But if
the goal is to reduce spam, then forged bounces are unlikely to help, as
most spammers don't use real return addresses.

William

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