[Spambayes] Bouncing Spam

Neale Pickett neale@woozle.org
Wed Nov 27 17:41:53 2002


So then, Tim Stone - Four Stones Expressions <tim@fourstonesExpressions.com> is all like:

> Well, ok then, the question arises as to whether or not spambayes
> should offer some functionality that is integratable into MX agents,
> or an MX agent proxy, or something like that, that is spambayes
> enabled, for webmasters or others who administer such things...  I
> certainly wouldn't have the slightest idea how to make such a thing,
> but it seems reasonable.

Can't.  You have to send the 5xx response before any message data,
including headers, is even sent.  By the time they've sent the whole
message and you get to tokenize it, the spammer has moved on to the next
victim.  If they don't care about bounce mail they're not going to care
about 500 errors after they've sent the entire message.




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