So when do you plan to stop replying???
On 26/06/2025 01:00, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 03:18:05PM -0000, Greg wrote:
On 2025-06-24, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
This like sounds like good and important advice, but how do you "bounce the
original message"?
By using the "bounce" feature of your MUA. Only good ones have it.
Does that mean forward the message to the report-listspam?
No. Forwarding and bouncing are different operations.
One problem for the casual user is that there's bouncing and then
there's bouncing. For most us, bouncing means that the mail server
rejects the email.
Yep. That's where the name comes from. It sends the mail back, with
as much intact info as possible to allow the mail admin to debug the
situation. Bouncing from the MUA does technically the same, so the
same name is appropriate.
https://www.activecampaign.com/glossary/bounced-email
For those in the know like you, it means redirecting the email
anonymously to another recipient.
I'm familiar with the latter as an Alpine user, BTW.
I think "bouncing" is something that should really be done on a server, not by a user email agent, even a "good" one.
Even so, "resend" is often available, either built-in or as a plugin, using the "Resent*" fields:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.6
The Debian Wiki has these suggestions for how to deal with spam:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam#nominate
and
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/FAQ#The_lists_are_spam-laden.2C_I_want_to_help_you
So it looks as if resending a spam message to report-listspam@lists.debian.org is OK, although "bouncing" the message back to the server is very much not, even if your MUA can do that.