Gordon Messmer scribbled something like: > Good Lord, why? > > If you don't define an [EMAIL PROTECTED] account at all, the mail will be > rejected during the SMTP session. You don't have to deal with floods of > incoming mail to invalid addresses, and you won't have to deal with > unnecessary DSNs, either.
Take your righteous "configured properly" bullshit and stuff it. That isn't the issue here. Its BECAUSE of what you just said, is why there are many rejected mails in the queue. Don't contradict yourself when you are shitting on someone. READ PROPERLY: 1) Mail comes in from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". 2) Mail doesn�t get delivered because "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not a user. 3) Courier tries to return that failure to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". 4) "nowhere.com" doesn�t exist or isnt a mail server, so courier 'defers' it either due to connection refused, connection timed out, or dns lookup failed. 5) Courier keeps on trying over and over for a week (default settings). 6) All the while the logfile grows and grows. Now, take all that and times it by how many spam emails come in to invalid users in attempt at actually finding a valid email address for their spam. You get one hell of a massive maillog, and one hell of a massive back queue, and one hell of a slow email server. What we are attempting to solve, is killing those messages from being deferred and thus sitting in the mail queue with no hope of ever returning the failure notice to the original sender. If you would have read the first emails about this from me and the others, you would have understood that from the start. And default settings of courier compound this issue, and thus why this issue exists to begin with. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id%62&alloc_ida84&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
