Raimo Niskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If a backscatter gets through to sendmail, and it is to an invalid > user, what is the proper thing for sendmail to do? My sendmail > most probably does the default, which I guess is to bounce the mail.
yes, if you receive a message intended for a non-existing user, you most likely bounce with 'unknown user' or the equivalent. it's the other end, where spam apparently gets delivered, that's making more noise than necessary by bouncing messages that should have simply been forwarded to /dev/null instead. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
