How do you intentionally bounce an email??

[skytop]

I am really fed up with the spam I am being flooded with.

I know that the spamers continue to send mail to addresses that accept the mail. If an email bounces (since most spammers generate generally anticipated email addresses), the spammer will ultimately remove that address since it is clearly a 'dead' or non existing address.

Does anyone know how to intentionally 'bounce back' email so it appears that the email was refused for a bad address? Is there a program or what is the manual procedure?

Thanks for your suggestions and help.

[fishybawb]

The problem is that a lot of spammers spoof (fake) the "from" address, so you might end up bouncing a mail to a non-existant server and then get an "undeliverable" message yourself.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

The easiest way to bounce spam back IMO is using a program called Mailwasher, only thing is, my ISP have in turn recieved complaints about me being a spammer :rolleyes: (probably from noobs who are being used as proxy's by spammers and are then recieving the junk back from me when i bounce it).

The only real way to kill off spam im afraid is to set up a brand new account, with a less than simple name, and not disclose its details for any mailing lists etc without decent privacy policies and to untrusted sources. I took this course of action a few weeks ago as i was gettign sick of 100+ spam emails a day, and ive not had a single unsolicited email yet :)

--Jakk:t

--Jakk:t

[BipolarBill]

All spammers use phony return addresses. It's a waste of time to bounce.

Best practices:

1. Never view e-mails as HTML - or at least do not load images. Images can be coded to send verification of arrival to the spammer. Service Pack 2 for XP includes an image filter for Outlook Express. It's a wonderful thing and allows a single-click method of viewing HTML mail from bonified senders.

2. Never click ANYTHING in a spam message.

3. Report spam:

www.spamcop.net

4. Use Mailwasher and Matador to make your life easier:

www.mailwasher.net

http://www.mailfrontier.com/products_matador.html

5. Change your e-mail address if it has gotten ridiculous.

[dajogejr]

I followed BP's advice, and installed Matador on a high spam receiving user...

Very, very nice...trains it self, but...is very flexible to user input. Great product.
It's only 30 bucks, and 9 bucks a year for maintenance and updates.

Also,
I use Outlook 2003 at work and home.

It has a built in Junk filter that works very, very nice as well.
Also very trainable, and...receives updats from the M$ Office update site for junk mail occasionally. Since I've had it late last year, 2 junk mail updates have come out.

I get from 3 to 15 a day...and Outlook 2003 I'd say catches 98% of 'em...the rest I train it to!

Also...Sky...tell your buddies or coworkers to use the BCC field for all jokes...etc. You probably don't have a virus...but if someone in the distribution list of an email does...guess what? You're all getting spammed...

Using BCC can help this, if just a little.

[bob05]

I think the best advice I could give (and use myself) is to setup two accounts, one from actual use with personal information and the other for signing up for things that potentially will send spam email. :t

[dajogejr]

Exactly...Bob...
That's about the smartest thing I've heard from you Ohio boys...ever...

Go take a break, you deserve it...
:p

Yep, I've had an @yahoo.com address for years. Use it to sign up for anything...

So...needless to say, If I only check it every few weeks...

It literally has 2000 emails in there...always at the 6MB limit for free mail... Oh well.

When Google gets their gmail up and going, bet your **** I'll have an account with them....1GB?? I don't care if it does spy...let 'em check out all the spam they want to!!!

;)