Ah, I see now. I received the "boilerplate" email and assumed that came directly from ASSP. But yea, it doesn't... came from the sending ISP. Thanks for clearing that up.
Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > Paul Houlbrooke wrote: >> In this case, isn't ASSP guilty of backscatter? It sends an error >> message to the sending user when the receiving user does not exist. Or >> do I something misconfigured? > > You are confusing terminology. Yes, ASSP sends a "message" back to the > sending server, but its not an email. Its an SMTP Reply code (3 digit > number) with a verbose description following it. The sending server > will then send a boilerplate email message to the sending user based on > the reply code it received when attempting to send the email. The > boilerplate email to the sending user is called a DSN - Delivery Status > Notification. > > The receiving server should not be sending the *email* message. That > should be done by the local sending server. Anything else is easily > abused as backscatter. > > ASSP handles all of this correctly and does not contribute to backscatter. > > http://www.asspsmtp.org/wiki/SMTP_Status_Codes#Example_DSN > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Assp-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
