in reply to RESLOVED: Bouncing Email w/ Perl
More importantly, most of the email you are receiving for unused addresses is spam. Spammers will generate mailboxes for domains even when they haven't harvested the address. The bounce messages won't do any good because spammmers forge return and from addresses. The bounces will be going to someone innocent or invalid address. Even if they went to the spammers, the spammers will likely ignore them and not remove the bad addresses from their lists.
The only case where bounces might be useful is if you acquired an old domain, or there used to be separate mailboxes. Then people might be legitimately using old addresses. I would suggest seeing if your ISP can do mail delivery for just the addresses that you use and bounce all the others at their server.
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