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Old 7 Nov 2012, 09:51 AM   #2
brong
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The ability to bounce back messages to the sender has been removed because it gets abused by spammers. The technical term is backscatter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28email%29

We found that reject rules were causing us to be added to spam block lists as a backscatter generator. This is bad for all the rest of our users.
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