Re: check_badrcptto, to prevent backscatter

Isn't back scatter exactly the intent of the spammer? Send the spam to invalid addresses with a forged return which is where the reject goes. 

But you could be right: back scatter may be so specific that these two scripts would be the only ones ever to go into the folder.

"Addresses" or "addressees" or even rcptto.
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"Robert Spier" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>> One solution would be to add a new directory named 'backscatter' and
>> put both scripts in there with the same prefix (check_goodrcptto) and
>> with a distinguishing suffix (_postfix & _qmail). That would be clear
>> to people that are interested in the subject.
>
>Yes.  Except backscatter isn't quite the right kind of descriptive
>name.  Maybe recipients?  addresses?
>
>-R