[Gllug] Testing spam filter

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 08 Mar, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 
> John G Walker wrote:
> > Thus confirming to the spammers that they have a genuine email address
> > to sell on.
> >   
> 
> Umm, no it doesn't.  They would get no more information than "we think 
> your email is spam".  It says nothing about whether the mailbox exists 
> or not.
> 
> > What is "correct" about this behaviour?
> 
> It's the correct, indeed only, way to permanently reject an email.
> 

   It may even go to the correct sender if you receive your mail direct via
smtp, not with forged headers via POP3.
   I receive via POP3, but junk is already filtered by my ISP.

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