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Similarly, I'd like all the scam emails to be auto responded to with fake data rather than black holed

I'd prefer to have an option for the provider to send a genuine "invalid recipient" (554) auto-reply for addresses we mark as spam.

I think zoho does this

Sometimes I do this with emails in my spam folder, but nothing interesting ever happens

Point is to make the signal to noise on response too low for the scammers to deal with. Today, they can feasibly have a person look at every response and choose the most promising targets.

If auto respond to even 0.01% of scam email, they suddenly need to have tools to weave through ridiculous amounts of data. Expensive. Scam becomes negative ROI

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