From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Subject: Re: Proper procedure for bounced mails? Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:28:57 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020722122857.GH29481@piku.org.uk> References: <00fe01c2315a$0b292a20$0264a8c0@wombie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00fe01c2315a$0b292a20$0264a8c0@wombie> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux Admin ML On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:29:59AM -0600, Jens Knoell wrote: | It's probably somewhat OT - is there an established procedure for bouncing | mails? Special headers and the like? A net search wasn't exactly helpful... | does anyone know a good resource to read up on that? How and why do you want to bounce email? Sendmail and friends automatically bounce mail if the recipient address is unknown. I don't recommend bouncing spam as the sender address is likely to be fake and you could accidentally mailbomb someone innocent. And it's probably not OT if you're using Linux mail servers ;-) -- I will not aim for the head PGP Fingerprint [6AD6 865A BF6E 76BB 1FC2 E4C4 DEEA 7D08 D511 E149] PGP Public key [www.piku.org.uk/public-key.asc] - Home [www.piku.org.uk]