Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 24 July 2000 at 15:00:18 -0700

 > But no, I was talking specifically about their probes.  Several of their
 > probes use both mangled return paths and mangled recipients that look like
 > their local.  Any mail setup where the SMTP listener doesn't know what
 > accounts are valid (not only qmail, but also any number of different
 > firewall or secondary MX setups) is going to generate internal
 > double-bounces from that that end up in the postmaster mailbox.

Ah!  Okay, I see some objection there.  I've had double-bounces turned
off for a long, long time (and none of the causes were ORBS probes),
but a more macho admin wouldn't want to do that of course.
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