Rejecting Email

is there a way to set up entourage to bounce junk emails back to the sender, rather than have them go into the junk folder?

Diane
Tue Feb 19 23:57:16 CST 2008

On 2/19/08 8:38 PM, in article ee8e17c.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"Sundance@officeformac.com" <Sundance@officeformac.com> wrote:

> is there a way to set up entourage to bounce junk emails back to the sender,
> rather than have them go into the junk folder?

Why bother? Really, do you think it will help? Often they are using a real
person's email address and you will be spamming them after they have been
hijacked. Delete it and forget it.

Nuke Messages:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/scripts/Nuke.zip>
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Sundance
Wed Feb 20 02:10:00 CST 2008

get buried in pharmacy spam and i thought if i could get them to bounce back as undeliverable, i might get off the rotation. I have since set up entourage to delete junk after one day so i don't have to delete (i think) this spam manually. will check once a day to make sure it is nothing i want to keep--but will see if this works.

thanks for the reply

Adam
Wed Feb 20 05:40:01 CST 2008

Sundance@officeformac.com <Sundance@officeformac.com> wrote:
> get buried in pharmacy spam and i thought if i could get them to bounce
> back as undeliverable, i might get off the rotation.

Junk email is not sent from real email addresses. They will never see the
bounce. Even if they do, they will not process it - most email marketers get
money by claiming to have lists of billions of email addresses, regardless
of whether they're real. Frequently I see non-blind-copied address lists
that contain all sorts of garbage, including Message-IDs.

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Sundance
Wed Feb 20 10:21:36 CST 2008

okay--thanks for the feedback. would be interesting to know how much of our life times are devoted to deleting junk emails. i know bored individuals have done these same studies for how much of our life we spend waiting at red lights :)