On Tuesday 22 March 2005 05:33 pm, jeff wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 March 2005 2:04, Steve Litt wrote:
> > I don't know how to do that, and I'd sure like to know how. Could you
> > please tell me how to do that?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > SteveT
>
> It's easy with kmail. Create a filter for the mail that you want to
> bounce, and set it to bounce in the actions list. And be prepared to empty
> your outbox frequently. Kmail can't/won't send to a spoofed address, so it
> just sits in the outbox as undeliverable. And you can not send any email
> until you delete the undeliverable bounces.
>
> That is why bouncing doesn't work. It puts the burden on you instead of
> the spammer.
>
> Jeff
Could a kmail filter be forced to write the raw email to a directory outside
the ~/.Mail or ~/Mail tree? If that were the case, I could create a cron
initiated script to mail those back to the -- the what -- the first server
named in the headers? As mentioned, I don't want to send it all the way back
to the sender, who will likely be long gone.
SteveT
-- Steve Litt Founder and acting president: GoLUG http://www.golug.org
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