[PLUG] Phony Mail Bounces

[Paul Johnson]

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On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:35:25PM -0800, Bill Spears wrote:
> Is anybody else getting phony mailbounce notices.  I'm getting about 12
> a day.  I've only looked at two of the msg bodies, and they had some
> HTML from "Jonathon Livingston Seagul" and had been "sent" by me to
> people I never heard of.

I've seen real bounce messages from broken mail servers that aren't
rejecting at SMTP-time when a user doesn't exist, along with the virus
bounces...

But that's all easily taken care of:  These unwanted nuisances do not
change their email address.  So just go add blacklist_from lines to
your ~/.spamassasin/user_prefs...example...

blacklist_from	         virusscanner at brokensite.us

This forces spamassassin to mark anything coming from that address as
spam, but doesn't outright slaughter it like having procmail send it
to /dev/null.  Just in case, for some reason, their virus scanner's
return email address has a local-part of postmaster or MAILER-DAEMON,
in case it's actually something you need.

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