On Seg, 2003-12-08 at 08:04, Jeff Jansen wrote: > But you really need to think this through. If this machine is connected to > the internet then every spammer that comes along is going to dump 10,000 > messages into your machine all of which will be accepted by you and then you > will turn around and send back 10,000 "this account is invalid" messages to > an account that doesn't exist in the first place (or worse might be an actual > account that he hijacked as his MAIL FROM address).
Yes, I had thought about this, but since the amount of spam this server receives has been pretty low for the last few years I figured it wouldn't hurt the internet that much =] But I guess you're right, this is not a good idea, more so because my reasons were not very good to begin with... > I can't see a good reason to accept mail for unknowns and send back a message > saying it's an unknown account. That's going to generate a ton of traffic > which doesn't need to be generated. Any legitimate user should get a bounce > back from their mail server saying that the remote server refused the > connection - "550 user unknown" or some such. What are you trying to > accomplish differently? (Just curious. I figure that you have do have a > reason for wanting to do this even if I don't know what it is. :-) This was just a request for comments on a possibility. I had users complaining that when they mass-email, the whole email doesn't get sent because of one misspelled address. I know, this is a stupid complaint, but since I've seen servers that react with other means to unknown addresses, I thought I should ask for advices. You've been very helpful, I'm gonna ponder this solution but probably just leave it as is. Thanks and cheers! -- Leo Costela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... with... a herring!"
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