On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Benny Pedersen wrote:
why did the bounce not go to apache.org ?, or did it, but apache.org did not see the problem in maillist ?
Because we have a caching server accepting the mail, and then when it *finally* decides the client is not going to retrieve the mail, it generates a bounce using the visible From header. To misquote a line from E.E. (Doc) Smith, "I could have eaten a hand full of iron filings and *puked* a better mail server than that."
not even the bounce email exists on the mta, so it will be bounce for anything sent to this domain, why did thay not remove that sucking domain from dns ? :)
I blocked these in my firewall, so I can't tell how old the mail is being currently 'returned', but when I was getting them they were for mail that was VERY old, like the MTA was giving up on the mail after a specific amount of time (like a month or more). This is the reason I opted for a firewall solution. That MTA was going to be doing this a long time.
:( - C
