jdow wrote:
Kindly explain to me how I can perform that nice bounce trick when I am using fetchmail, Steve. I'd LOVE to do that.
Unfortunatly you can't. You only have one shot to reject the email from the spammer and that is when the spammers machine is connecting to yours to deliver the message. Once the mail has been accepted from the spammers MTA you have to assume everything has been forged so a return address can't be used.
As soon as the spammer machine delivers the email to another mail server it is a successful delivery as far as the spammer is concerned - the only thing that makes it better is if you buy the thing their spamming about. If as in your SA rule you call the spammer names and hack the email to little pieces, that's only for your own amusement and lack of clutter in your inbox.
Don't get me wrong, SA is great and I wouldn't go a day without it, I'm just clarifying that spammers only feel pain when their spam is turned away at the gate and doesn't make it inside your walls at all and when possible the goal is to make them feel the pain!!!
Steve
