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Bounce mail spam in masses. What to do?

When I got up this morning I found more than 300 emails in my mailbox with numbers growing by the minute. All those mails were bounce mails coming from Russia. Looking at the attached original mails ...
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How to bounce emails TO a particular email address

We use Google Apps and on most domains, have a catchall address. Over the years though, various email addresses of ours have ended up on various sold email databases/lists and they receive different ...
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Mime format message

How to read mime encoded files? We have converted .msg file to .mhtml for better reading without MS Outlook. But we cannot read encoded text in bounced mails. message is as Content-Type: text/html; ...
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Postfix: change sender address of bounce (mails from fetchmail)

I am running a Postfix MTA. Fetchmail is used to get mails from several POP3 accounts. The problem is: If a mail cannot be delivered, e.g. because it exceeds the size limit of the mailbox, a bounce ...
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How to disable all bounce back email in exim 4.69

I have set up an email server to send out solicited newsletters. There should be no "regular" users of this server, so it is not desirable to send bounce notifications back to the recipient. ...
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Outlook 2002 Internet headers empty

I'm trying to troubleshoot a bounceback email on an Outlook 2002 client. They are sending email through regular pop3 and SMTP. For the bounceback message, the "Internet Headers" section of properties ...
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Email bounce back protocol and who receives it?

What is the determining factor in where the bounce back email is sent? If the sender and the reply-to field are different which email gets the bounce back message? Currently our system sends out ...
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How to bounce an email

I'm getting spam (thanks to NameCheap not properly cloaking my email address), and I'd like to bounce the emails back to the spammers so they think my account doesn't exist. They're not forged From ...
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How to disable bounce emails in exim?

How to disable bounce emails in exim ? I don't want the server to send a bounce message when the email not exists.
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552 This message is not RFC 2822 compliant [smtp-07.iol.local; LIB_670]

I have had autoresponder emails set up for a while already, and suddenly I get the following message as undelivered. I only got this one time, so it seems not to be a general problem. I checked RFC ...
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Emails to a specific address are bounced

I have been having issues with my emails to a particular client being bounced. I sent two emails today - the same email to two mail addresses in the clients .com domain. The first was sent to fred@...
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postfix: how to generate a bounce

Is there a way to generate a bounce programmatically? The only thing I found is "-N" flag in sendmail wrapper and bounce_template_file configuration parameter: /usr/sbin/sendmail -N failure But for ...
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determine bounce-back/rfc status of email address without sending an email to that address

When you send an email that gets rejected by the server for some reason, you may get a bounce-back message with useful information about why the email was bounced, such as an RFC status code. Is there ...
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Incoming server mail (MDA) behind ISP => different reverse DNS: How bad?

I would like to operate an incoming-only MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) server mail for domain xyz.com on an Ubuntu server hosted behind my ISP (Internet service provider) Comcast. The objective is to ...
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How to resend bounced email messages using mutt

Background An email relaying issue was resolved. 32 email messages to sponsors had bounced to root. I copied /var/mail/root to /tmp/root. I deleted irrelevant messages from /tmp/root (using mutt). ...
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How to locate spam php scripts

Most of the shared servers might be facing the issue of fake PHP code being injected in their sites which may lead to generation of spam mails, redirection to a different site, creation of social ...
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Stop exim retrying failed emails

My Webserver has been denied from Yahoo! and every time an email is sent to a Yahoo! server, it fails and replies with: Connecting to mta7.am0.yahoodns.net [66.94.238.147]:25 ... connected SMTP<&...
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Are there any good email management systems that will allow me to get a list of 'sent-to' email addresses from a large list of bounceback emails?

The basic idea is that I sent a newsletter with a bespoke bulkmailer and got a load of 'bouncedback' or 'message sending failed' emails, and I'm trying to just get a long list of 'sent-to' email ...
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