Re: POPwatch 2.30 released

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From: Gary Priest
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 00:00

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 In article <874620384.23002.0.nnrp-03.c2de4f5e@news.demon.co.uk>
  obroadway@cix.co.uk (Oliver Broadway) wrote:-

>On 14 Sep 97 10:25:36 G, Gary Priest wrote:
>> *New 'Reject Message' option to send a 'Failure' DSN to try and ward 
>>  off junk email. Creates a REJECT.LOG file. See POPWATCH.TXT for more 
>>  details.
>
>I thought I would mention that I have never yet managed to reject a
>message with POPWatch 2.30 - I always get a dialog saying the message
>can't be rejected because there is no "return-path" or "to" entry.

You've just been unlucky! Almost all the junk email I get has a valid
Return-Path which allows me to trace it back to the sender, and thus reject
it.
Some email deliberately doesn't include a Return-Path, and hence
POPwatch has no way to trace the sender :(

Gary


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