just another quick 'real-world' example to add to the fray...
my domain name (plexnet.com) used to belong to a now defunct isp in oregon. before they went bankrupt, a number of their customers used their e-mail accounts to visit every last porn site on the internet. valid, non-spam messages to these accounts are returned to sender, but i also get 200 to 300 "Hi. This is the qmail-send program at plexnet.com. I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced" messages a day due to invalid forged 'Sender" headers... i handle this using filters (in kmail) for my admin e-mail account. i don't see any other way... On Tuesday 08 January 2002 01:00, Darrell May wrote: > Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > In an office that has had some turnover I get about a hundred > > 'the bounce bounced' messages from qmail a day from unreturnable > > spam sources to deleted users. It would really be nicer if such mail > > could just be refused instead of wasting the resources accepting it and > > then processing the bounce. > > Exactly Les. This is what I am trying albeit poorly to report. This is > infuriating for a client of mine and there has to be a way to stop this > type of, 'the bounce bounced' messages. > > Regards, -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
