On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 04:05:15PM -0500,
David Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[He doesn't want to see double bounces.]
>
> How about a autoresponder at the postmaster account which simply replies saying
> "to speak to a live human operator, please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and
> /dev/null's the message. This way humans sending e-mail to the postmaster
> account don't end in frustration.. and automated mailings will either be not
> replied to (because there is no return-path) or will get punished with an
> e-mail because they didn't properly set their return-path.
There isn't any point in doing this for double bounces. Double bounces are
caused when both the recipient and sender addresses are munged. No automated
response to a double bounce is going to be useful. At our site I estimate
80-90% of the double bounces are from spam. The others are caused by our
users sending out email (to bogus addresses) with bogus return addresses
(typically typos).
If you aren't going to look through the messages and try to figure out if
one of your users has something set up wrong and let them know about it,
it should be pretty safe to delete double bounces. Though you might want
to look at ones that don't have any received headers indicating they came
from outside your network, since those are not likely to be spam.
>
> Does this sound right? Any chance of creating a mail loop here?
Who would you even be replying to? It is certainly possible to create a loop
here if you do something wrong.
