At 11:22 19/10/2004, Garrett Stoupe wrote:
Wouldn't the most easiest thing to do is to redirect the messages to nick.bolton(a)clear.net.nz which is the administrative contact name under mailwasher.net?
They will soon get the picture,
To do that though, you would need a foolproof, programatic way of getting an MTA to recognise a Mailwasher forgery and seperately handle it. Has anyone done this yet for any popular MTA's ? It's one thing for a human to be able to look at the headers and spot them reliably, but another for it to be automated. (Think spam filtering - FP's and FN's etc) The overhead would need to be pretty low too, since mailservers have a hard enough time filtering junk as it is... While I don't condone forwarding bounces to the authors, if someone had a reliable way to detect them, they could at least be dropped on the floor instead of going into the MTA's outgoing queue to be retried for 5 days... Regards, Simon