Manually sending back a "mail server rejected" email reply

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@Nuvini:

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Sounds like dee4 wants to do it after the mail has already been received, though–not necessarily how to blacklist an address.

@Nuvini:

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Yes, that is exactly the method I used to blacklist email addresses. This works if they try to send me another email later. Postfix rejects their email and sends them an appropriate "rejected" email reply.

What I'm wondering is if I can do this for their initial email. I want to keep them in the dark as to whether I even read that first email.

@samh:

@Nuvini:

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Sounds like dee4 wants to do it after the mail has already been received, though–not necessarily how to blacklist an address.

Indeed.

@samh:

@Nuvini:

Something like this? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-blac … l-address/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-blacklist-reject-sender-email-address/
Sounds like dee4 wants to do it after the mail has already been received, though–not necessarily how to blacklist an address.

Oh- well.. there's Autoresponse. I'm not sure if that could be configured to simulate a reject response, but that may be something to look into.

Short answer; "no".

Blacklists, DNS RBLs and the like reject mail during SMTP transaction. At this point it's normally the sender's mail server that creates the reject message. If you've already accepted the message then the SMTP transaction has been closed. If you fake up a "reject" message (it is possible, not hard) then you need to ensure you're not going to generate "backscatter" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28email%29 ). However the smart person will read the headers and determine it's a fake, and so know you'd spent time and effort (which is what the trolls want).

You're better off just filtering the mail to /dev/null and ignoring it.