Re: help with a procmailrc recipe

Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:15:45 -0500
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* Zhiliang Hu <[email protected]> [12-02-14 09:59]:
> To fight against increasingly aggressive spam mails, besides
> spam-assassin and a couple dozen filters I use to trash sure-spams,
> there still remain some mixed mails where I have to manually fish out
> good from bad or bad from good mails.
> 
> For this "small" portion of mails, I wrote a recipe to send automated
> inquery mails to verify if a suspecious mail is from a human-being:
> if it gets a human reply to confirm, the saved mail gets further
> delivered; if the inquery mail gets bounced, the saved mail gets
> deleted.  So far everything works fine except this last recipe to
> process bounce/delete:


Why on earth would you want to acknowledge and active email account to a
spammer?  NEVER respond to suspected spam accounts, unless you would like
to receive much more spam.

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