Eric Long writes:
> A user on my system is subscribed to a large volume mailing list. When mail
> is sent to the user on my system, it never gets delivered because qmail
> bounces it due to an error 553, the server is not in my list of rcpthosts.
> I previously passed this off as being a problem on the other end, but it has
> been explained to me that large volumes of e-mails are distributed as
> follows:
You're being fed a line of nonsense. First of all, just because some
of the addresses bounce, why should your user not receive her email?
What if they happened to get all twenty addresses correct and mail was
sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and only "usere" bounced? Qmail
won't bounce the mail that way, but sendmail might.
Spammers would love it if that's how relaying actually worked.
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