On Monday 26 June 2006 21:12, jdow wrote: > From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [snip] > > Doing this means that *you* get to see the mail identified as spam, when > > you look in the special file. Rejecting the message in the SMTP > > transaction means that the *sender* knows you didn't get the email, so > > they can either try resending a less-spammy message, or contacting you > > by other means if it's something important. No intervention needed on > > your part. > > Oh really.... And how do you keep a joe-job from turning your system > into a spam system? Or do you mean simply 404ing the transaction? Rejecting the mail during the *SMTP* transaction *never* involves any hosts or addresses mentioned in the message headers. It is a TCP protocol-level thing only involving the peers: the sending host and your receiving host. It's impossible to involve a third party. Of course, that was the point Paul was making. -- Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579
