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Originally Posted by spindles
The only real problem with filtering the bounce messages, is that you will also filter out any REAL bounce messages as well. When you get a real one of these, you really want to get it...
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Absolutely. I'd set up a filter to catch something unique about the bounces--given they're spam, they'll all say the same things and it should be easy to find a spammish phrase to catch them on.
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Originally Posted by spindles
On a side note - testing for validity by re-checking the originating server would be a pain - I have 4 different email addresses and (generally) use the local mail server to send (by and large ISPs don't require authentication on their mail servers when you are 'inside' that ISP). So while I regularly use two different mail servers to send, neither of them are the incoming mail server of my main email address. Bloody hard to verify that kind of thing...
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Absolutely. SMTP is the single most ad-hocked protocol there is. I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with local techs about "how they do email here". There are myriad ways to set it up, and they're all more or less "right".