HELP PLS: Bounce Incoming Email From Partial Sender Name ("Wildcard")

[TMC]

• How can a DA User (not reseller or admin) configure a generic bounce message for all incoming emails which match a partial sender name ("wildcard")?
  
  Eg: BOUNCE INCOMING EMAIL FROM <*@*.info>
  
  At present the DA User Email Filter menu only provides the following options:

  [1] Block the following email:
  [2] Block the following domain
  [3] Block email containing this word
  [4] Block e-mail larger than (Kb)

 

[nobaloney]

Again, you could probably do this with a custom exim.conf file.

Jeff

 

[TMC]

Again so much for the DA User Email Filter

• Again will DA preserve any changes we make by hand to exim.conf?

 

[jmstacey]

As far as I know, DA will not overwrite exim.conf just as it won't overwrite the master httpd.conf file.

 

[nobaloney]

Re: Again so much for the DA User Email Filter

Again so much for the DA User Email Filter

A filter should never be used to bounce.

Because a filter runs after the email is accepted. And because on today's Internet bouncing might very well send an email "back" to someone who never sent it in the first place.

Again will DA preserve any changes we make by hand to exim.conf?

Yes.

Jeff

 

[TMC]

Re: Re: Again so much for the DA User Email Filter

As ever you are absolutely correct JL. Does this mean DA currently bounces emails inefficiently? To put it another way, does the current "four options only" DA Filter Menu bounce after or before the email is accepted?

Originally posted by TMC
At present the DA User Email Filter menu only provides the following options:
[1] Block the following email:
[2] Block the following domain
[3] Block email containing this word
[4] Block e-mail larger than (Kb)

Originally posted by jlasman
A filter should never be used to bounce.

Because a filter runs after the email is accepted. And because on today's Internet bouncing might very well send an email "back" to someone who never sent it in the first place.

 

[nobaloney]

There is no way to bounce email efficiently.

Spammers routinely use phony headers to make sure the bounces will go anywhere but to them. What most people call "bouncing" is an idea that just doesn't work on today's not-so-friendly Internet.

I really don't know where the DA filter runs ; perhaps someone else can tell us, as I don't have time to look it up now.

Jeff