Re: setting up mail server

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:50:09AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Adam Majer wrote:
> 
> > Of course they are going to not allow other e-mail addresses to be
> > used! Otherwise their smarthost becomes a spamhost.
> 
> Though they can probably use tricks to prevent multiple sendings of the
> same message or using spamfilters outbound to silently reject them...

But each message for each address could be different and generated with
something like:

Dead <e-mail>:

and each Message-ID would be different too... Too much work and you
couldn't filter all the spam. Plus it makes sure that the return e-mail
address isn't bogus [like bill@microsoft.com or something].


- Adam