Am 05.11.2013 00:50, schrieb Jim Wright: > On Nov 4, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Ian Evans <dheianev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've read tutorials and the backscatter/local recipient pages and my postfix >> is still sending out bounce message instead of just dropping the >> connections. I want to be a good netizen so want to nip this in the bud. > > Normally, bouncing undeliverable messages is the proper behavior for a good > netizen.
*what*? you never ever have to bounce - not for incoming mail you must not if you won't get blacklisted for good reasons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter > Why are you being rude and dropping the connection? he meant REJECT and not simply drop the connection > Doing this to a properly configured mail server will just cause them to retry > the delivery not in case of a 5xx status code
