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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:07:59 -0400
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
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Malcolm Kay wrote:
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> I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't 
> get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think 
> eventually confusing fetchmail.

You ought to convince your ISP to apply better spam filtering before they 
accept messages for you, which will reduce the problem you see.

> Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that
> I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses.

Nowadays, you can receive a lot of spam regardless of what you do, so it helps 
to reject most of it immediately.

-- 
-Chuck