Re: MailWasher problems.

From: Solbu (solbu_at_ugyldig.start.no)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:44:01 +0100

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On lørdag 24. januar 2004, 07:07 Chris Mitchell tried to express an opinion:

> Is there any way I can stop MW automatically marking SPAM for Bouncing?

That depends on how you identify the emails as spam.

If they are identified by one of your filters,
the filters can individually be set to NOT bounce, but stil delete.

If the SPAM is identified usin blacklist servers,
you must Disable bouncing all together!

I've stoped bouncing myself, because of the same problems.
 
> As far as I?m concerned this effectively confirms the email address,
> since the time difference between when the message was sent and when my
> bounce was received would be significantly different to the time
> difference if messages had been bounced by my ISPs servers. Or am I
> talking rubbish?

Bouncing using mailwasher is no diferent that the mailservers bouncing
when the account does not exist.
You can not se if a mail is bounced by mailwasher or a genuine mailserver.

But not bouncing may also confirm the validity of a mailadress.
(eg: If it is not returned, it must exist)

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