Disabling delivery receipts 1

[kainite]

Spammers often use delivery receipts to confirm addresses are live - I want to turn off delivery recipts in Mercury to deter this - I can't seem to find any such option - any ideas - mail is being picked up by the POP client module

 

[SteelBurner]

You might uncheck "Broadcast notifications for receipts" in the Mercury core module configuration.

SteelBurner

 

[kainite]

Thanks Steelburner - sadly the network broadcasts are just to do with Netware LAN messages that pop up on screen of local user's who have received incoming mail

 

[Zaphod4242]

Go to the Files tab on the Mercury Core Module Configuration dialog and clear the field for Delivery confirmation template. You should also notice that there is a field for Delivery failure template. Mercury uses this template to send a notification of failure if the user doesn't exist. If you clear the confirmation field but not the failure field, a spammer could reasonably determine that if it doesn't receive a delivery failure message then the user is valid. Clearing the field would prevent that, however any person that attempts to send a legitimate email to one of your users, but accidentally misspells the email address, would not receive a failure notice and would falsely believe that their email was delivered.

 

[kainite]

Thanks Zaphod4242 - that seems to have done the trick - guess from your handle you have a mind the size of a planet!