[ILUG] anti-spam thing...

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:38:57PM -0000, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) mentioned:
> True, although I think Kate was talking about something akin to a 
> "SYSTEM: Undeliverable" type message ... it usually takes about two of these
> from an address for a spammer's bot to remove that address from their lists.
> 
> Offhand I'm not sure how to generate them, although the postfix / qmail /
> etc source should be a good guide .... they'd probably have to come from a
> certain alias though (shouldn't be a problem if you control the domain /
> hosts involved !)

 Well, I do have a vacation script, that does some messing (uses formail
to extract the from/reply-to from the message, then sends them a template)
etc.

 More wondering; who do I send these messages as, so spammers don't get my
address, and people don't get confused when they get a mail from someone
called "Mailer daemon"...

Kate

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