Thursday, January 05, 2012

drag2share: The Ultimate Annoying Email Deflector Shield [Email]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5873104/the-ultimate-annoying-email-deflector-shield

The Ultimate Annoying Email Deflector ShieldMarketers. Exes. Bosses who somehow got ahold of your personal email address. Sure, you could make a filter or click 'report spam' (as if that actually does anything...), but wouldn't it be better if they just stopped emailing you altogether?

Oh, they will now. Check this trick out:

You ever email someone and get that "Delivery Permanently Failed" bounceback from some mailer-daemon? Everybody has. Here's how to make the daemon (whatever the hell it is) work for you.

Here's how you do it:
1. Hit Reply.
2. Edit the subject line by adding the words DELIVERY FAILURE: ahead of the original.
3. At the top of the body, simply paste in the quoted text below.
4. Enjoy your life.

MAILER-DAEMON: DELIVERY HAS PERMANENTLY FAILED TO THIS RECIPIENT OR DELIVERY LIST.

An error occurred while trying to deliver this message to the recipient's e-mail address. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. User does not exist.

Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Diagnostic information for administrators:

Generating server: corporate.dmgt.net

HSJFK-EXWT-W0V1V-S.corporate.bzqt.net #550 ... No such user ##

Original message headers:

Received: from mail66.besmt5.meqlabs.com (10.181.104.248) by
HSJFK-EXWT-W0V1V-S.corporate.dzzgt.net (10.195.2.137) with Microsoft SMTP Server
(TLS) id 8.3.274.0;
Received: from [208.93.140.190:44031] by server-5.bzgmt-5.meqlabs.com id
FB/48-17252-2A7230FG4;
X-Msg-Ref: server-136.tower-425.meqlabs.com!345832498624!11005757!1
X-Originating-IP: [184.154.123.70]
X-SpamReason: No, hits=1.2 required=7.0 tests=HTML_20_30,HTML_MESSAGE,
RCVD_BY_IP
X-StarScan-Version: 6.4.3; banners=-,-
X-VirusChecked: Checked
Received: (qmail 22800 invoked from network);
Received: from mail-hw0-f34.gaole.com (HELO mail-hw0-f34.gaole.com)
(289.25.986.44) by server-136.tower-425.meqlabs.com with RH6-ZRA
encrypted SMTP;
Received: by qfadb12 with SMTP id c14sb9234843qxh.20
Received: by 173.193.156.78 with SMTP id fdsalkf293238hj2.30.11349182363705;
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 174.120.168.2195with HTTP;
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="20cf385fc2b644bb8314b59ggbc0"

We've taken the liberty of scrambling all of those numbers, server names, and such, so none of the above is traceable. We've also deleted any reference to dates or email addresses so it can be used by anybody at any time. Yes, a very savvy IT professional will probably see through it. The other 99.95% of the population will think your email address no longer works and probably won't send you anything again. You win.

Let us know in the comments how you plan on using this. And if you ever email us and get something like this back, well, uh... gotta go! Bye!


Image credit: Shutterstock/ Pablo H Caridad, ayzek, and bioraven

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