Smart replies to SPAM
A sysadmin script at our place diligently replies to all mails (including spams) to inform them that the email address has changed.
Most replies to spam mailers will bounce. I got one such bounced mail.
This is precious (Read the last few lines carefully):
From: postmaster@vodacom.co.za
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:25:57 +0200
To: jjhegde@... .in
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
...
...
Final-Recipient: rfc822;dwmbssswl@vodacom.co.za
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
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From: ITSS
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:50:13 +0530 (IST)
To: dwmbssswl@vodacom.co.za
Subject: Re: look no more
The domain has been changed to . Your mail has been delivered but henceforth please send mail to the new email-id
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Most replies to spam mailers will bounce. I got one such bounced mail.
This is precious (Read the last few lines carefully):
From: postmaster@vodacom.co.za
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:25:57 +0200
To: jjhegde@... .in
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
[-- Attachment #1 --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
...
...
Final-Recipient: rfc822;dwmbssswl@vodacom.co.za
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
[-- Attachment #3 --]
[-- Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 1.9K --]
From: ITSS
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:50:13 +0530 (IST)
To: dwmbssswl@vodacom.co.za
Subject: Re: look no more
The domain has been changed to . Your mail has been delivered but henceforth please send mail to the new email-id
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