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RE: Emails bouncing warning
- From: "Dave Murphy" <wintermute2k4 at ntlworld dot com>
- To: "Marcin Konicki" <ahwayakchih at neoni dot net>,<binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:24:31 +0100
- Subject: RE: Emails bouncing warning
> -----Original Message-----
> From: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Marcin Konicki
> Sent: 12 July 2004 09:33
> To: binutils@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Emails bouncing warning
>
>
> I've used instructions from warning mail to get bounced mails (all 3 of
> them) and they were just a spam. So probably it was just server blocking
> spam.
>
> What should i do? I don't want to receive spam, but it seems list doesn't
> understand that :(
if you can you should configure your smtp to just blackhole the spam (i.e. just ignore it and pretend it never arrived). If not ask your ISP if they can blackhole it.
Bouncing mails from servers is one of the tricks spammers use to hide the origin of the mails
Dave