On or about 03:24 PM 1/2/99 -0500, Len Budney was caught in a dark alley
speaking these words:
>Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> ...badmailto...I'm getting around 10 or 20 double bounces a day from
>> these two addresses, and in the past we've had other problems with
>> nonexistant addresses that double bounce...
>
>This isn't a detailed criticism--I'm not a mail admin of a large site,
>after all! However...
>
>Can't you already do what you want with existing qmail mechanisms? For
>example, suppose these spammers send mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]",
>which is not a valid address.
>
>One idea is to create the file ~alias/.qmail-whacko123 with the line:
> # Drop it right now!
[snip]
I didn't see Vince's original message, but I've received spam where in the
headers, it says "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"... maybe he means the To: header.
That would help me for sure.
Otherwise, remember: if you do your alias trick, qmail will accept the
message as delivered, then /dev/null it. With badmailto, I believe the
message would be rejected during the SMTP conversation and not delivered at
all.
Just a dummy's $0.02... ;-)
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SysAdmin - Iceberg Computers
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