Blocking Delivery Status Notifications?

[Remco Barendse]

Hmmm I needn't mention the make and type of mailer do I??

I case someone still has doubts, its M$ Exchange 2000 in combination with
Outlook.

No matter what, it is not possible to block these messages. Even worse
they are not visible to the user or the admin.

I found out about this behaviour of M$ Exchange because I have the
archivesink.dll installed that saves all incoming and outgoing mail
*before* it is processed by exchange. This way you can see really
everything that is going in/out even the messages you aren't supossed to
see, recalled messages etc etc.

The folder that contains archived messages is flooded with these status
messages because apparently many people request these as a standard thing.
I installed the Microgarden Outlook Tools to try and block them which
works a little but still huge numbers of these buggers get through.
http://www.microgarden.com/outlooktools/

I really think it is invasion of our privacy and find *very* annoying
that there is no way to stop it...

Also for the spammers it is very helpful. Certain e-mail adresses have
multiple recipients which causes Exchange to happily report back several
new mail adresses in case they weren't on their spam list already....

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Peter Peters wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:02:41 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >For privacy reasons I still would like to be able to block these buggers
> >from leaving our server nontheless (it's very embarassing if
> >someone calls and a colleague says that you are out of the office for the
> >day and the person who called sends an e-mail instead which then returns
> >a 'Your message has been read by' DSN message :( which makes you explain
> >why you wouldn't take the phone).
>
> You can perfectly be out of the office and still read mail. I do iot
> regularly. But I don't know of any mailer who sends DSN's out without
> the users consent. If you have one that does I would suggest to throw it
> out as fast as you can. What else is that mailer sending out without you
> knowing? And perhaps even through obscure routes no mailscanner or
> anything else can detect.
>
> --
> Peter Peters
> senior netwerkbeheerder,  Centrum voor Informatievoorziening,
> Universiteit Twente,   Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
> telefoon: +31 53 489 2301, fax:+31 53 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/civ
>
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