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ok a bit of advice.

now I have a spam program, which work great, but its a real pain having to sort through, wots real and wots not so a few questions

1> when somone sends me a mail, does the spammer know I've got it ? - as long as I dont reply, in other words is there some kinda of mechanism, where as if the spammer does not get a failed message he knows its a worker ?

2> can I simulate a "failed mailer deamon" reply, so the spammer thinks the address he's reached is dead ?
i.e can I send a reply, back to the spammer, like "invalid address" etc, or will the fact he's had a reply proove this is a worker

cheers

Jay
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"They" don't care if the email is delivered or not as it is a server that is throwing out literally hundreds of thousands of emails out at once. These servers do noting more than use harvested email addresses to send spam and do not accept returned or bounced email and if they do they are immidiately deleted. I am sure there are some servers that do verify that an email was bounced from a real address but I am sure those are few and far between. You will also notice that many emails are from fake, non existent, or spoofed email domains so if they do get bounced they aer either going into oblivion or going to a real mail domain as undeliverable. No spammer would send an email from a real domain or they would be promptly shut down.
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