[BUGS] [MAILER-DAEMON at sparc5-85.johnvinton.com: Returned mail: Cannot send message within 5 days]

[Callum Gibson]

On 17Jan08 11:11, jonathan michaels wrote:
}yes, it was spam, a whole lot of foreign char garbage hat
}sendmail could not translate into english, thats beside the
}point. it was teh mailer-daemon 'wrapper' that it came in that
}i was wondering about, do i reply to teh sender of teh 'this is
}spam, don't send us spam' mailer-deamon mail, or are you saying
}that the whole lot is a manufactured spam article and should
}not be responded ?

I would guess so.

}that being teh case how, or is it possible to tell teh
}difference between this kind of spam and the real article, a
}mailer-deamon getting a spam article and sending it back to teh
}apparent sender for reproof/chastisement and should i respond
}to that with a 'it was not me' ??
}
}i'm concerned about ending up on some idiots blacklist because
}s/he cannot tell the difference, or is 'trigger happy' as
}regards this whole spam situation ???

Unless you are running an open relay, the original bounce didn't
originate from you and so you wouldn't be put on a blacklist.
It's possible someone else's open relay was used to generate
the bounce and spam the eventual recipients that way.

Your choices are:
a) ignore it;
b) implement some sort of local spam filtering and ignore it.

    C

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