Re: New!!!
Re: New!!!
- Subject: Re: New!!!
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:57:28 -0600
At 00:49 +0200 5/20/03, Adosh van der Heijden wrote:
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I'm new too, and landed here with a sortlike motive. I want to automate a function in Mail too. In short: what would a script look like that sends unsolicited mail back to sender as if my e-mailaddress doesn't exist?
Sometimes I think most of the AppleScripty things I try are impossible.
But. This one really is. Only the most stupid spammers, and they don't last long, provide anything that can be used as a return address. Your "doesn't exist" message will come to someone like me whose domain name has been faked into the From: or Reply-To: headers. That kind of second hand spam amounts to over 3000 every month at my domain. AOL creates most of them. I have had to resort to perl scripts to kill them before I download with Eudora.
If you're running your own SendMail or POP3 server you can possible react to the last, and only the last, IP address you see in a Received-From: header but that's pretty much impossible unless you "own" the POP server. Other IP addresses you see are probably faked. Blacklists do that kind of thing even though it often aims at an innocent intermediate.
Good luck with your AppleScripting. It is a challenge but it's fun. This list is THE place to be.
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Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
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