you should feel lucky to only have 40 in your queue. after a quick
check i find 390 in the queue on just *1* of many inbound servers.
i had noticed the numerous bounces not making it home and just
hadn't got around to complaining to them yet. it appears that they
don't care anyway. pitty i may just have to block them too.
mike.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron L. Meehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:40 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Mypoints.com is not nice to us qmail admins (was: C API for
> queueing messages)
>
>
> Quoting Jay Balakrishna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [...]
> > Any help will be appreciated. Any other ideas are also most welcome
> > Thanks and Regards,
>
> Wow, Mypoints!
>
> I think Mark is helping admirably with your question, but I will offer
> some help myself in another area that Mypoints needs assistance:
>
> I will write a program to collect your bounces and weed the stale
> addresses from your mailing lists--because you never do! I've
> complained for a year and a half that you don't--I finally just
> firewalled your network at our border router a month ago (phone calls
> to mypoints gave me a run-around), yet still I see rejected packets
> from your various mail servers. None of our customers can get to your
> web site, so it's unlikely they are signing up (and I assume, hope
> rather, that third-parties can't sign them up without you sending
> email confirmation, hmm?).
>
> (OK, I'm not really meaning to air dirty laundry, but this is sort of
> qmail-related in an abstract way ;-), and like I said their network is
> blackholed by us and phone calls have been useless.)
>
> Since mypoints.com sends email with invalid return paths, such as
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", our mail servers can't _ever_ deliver
> bounces back to them, and their administration team seems quite
> unwilling to fix it, despite my numerous recommendations to do so. I
> once found around 40 (!!) bounces queued for various unreachable
> mlbx*.mypoints.com servers. I'll bet this would be a pet peeve for
> many of you as well.
>
