Re: Bouncing Spam

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Ellad Tadmor wrote:

> The Apple mail application has a nice feature for dealing with spam. You can 
> "bounce" a message back to its origin with the (false) information that your 
> email account does not exist ("User unknown"). It doesn't always work, but in 
> some cases the system sending out the spam will remove your "incorrect" email 
> address from its list, resulting in a reduction in future spam. (My wife 
> tested this theory and did observe a reduction in spam.)
>
> I'm wondering whether a similar feature exists in pine. I know there is a 
> bounce command in pine - but it works differently. It simply forwards the 
> message to a new email address as if it never came to you. This is not the 
> same thing as Apple's bounce.
>
> Any information would be appreciated.

  Write your own perl script that does what you say above, then use the pipe
  "|" command to pipe the email to your spam script.

  It sure would be nice to have numeric shortcuts/SpeedPipe for commonly
  used apps to pipe too.  "|3" might execute the script with RAW, Headers
  and delimited, whereas "|2" would execute a different script with no
  modifiers.

  Is PINE still in active development or is that other program now in
  alpha/beta replacing pine?

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Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
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