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Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows?

Posted by timothy on from the we've-all-got-needs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One cool feature I used on KMail years ago was the ability to generate a spoofed email bounce for any given message I had received, which claimed delivery failed because of an unknown recipient. While this doesn't exactly align with expected behaviour from a mail client, it was a useful way of easily getting off mailing lists (automated, or manually created by freaky acquaintances!). This is something I really miss, so I'm wondering if there are any mail clients for Windows that provide similar functionality?"

3 of 244 comments (clear)

  1. KDE on Windows? by Gwala · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doesn't KDE run on Windows these days? You could probably just run KMail directly...

    --
    #!/bin/csh cat $0
  2. Usefulness by MicroSlut · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not even a 550 SMTP session will get you off most mailing lists because, even if it is a legitimate list, the marketers are too aggressive to care. Also, a NDR after a successful session will likely go to either an unmonitored mailbox, a hapless user who won't understand it, or null. Weed through some email logs and you'll see. I see some lists that have been emailing the same address for ten years and I always disconnect with a 550. That said, try Pegasus Mail. I find that it does almost anything.

  3. Seriously, guy, Kmail has not done this for years by BlortHorc · · Score: 5, Informative

    At least since KDE 4, and from what I recall, maybe 3.4 or even 3.3, this feature was dropped.

    Your time to bitch about it? That would be thataway.