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Subject: Re: Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces?
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I've always used ...
foo@bar.com	550 address poisoned by spammers
or something more descriptive, as it helps the recipient of the bounce
(of the bounce) gets a clue.

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 07:32, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-05-29T05:58:05Z, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> writes:
> 
> > Don't accept the messages in the first place; that way, your machines
> > won't have responsibility for trying to bounce the messages later on.
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> > You don't mention which mail server you are using, but if you haven't
> > changed the default FreeBSD MTA, add something like:
> >
> > erin@honeypot.net		550 I don't want this mail!
> > michelle@honeypot.net		550 I don't want this mail!
> >
> > ...to /etc/mail/access and do a "make" in /etc/mail.
> 
> Excellent!  That was exactly what I needed.
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