Contact somewhere.com and tell them about it. If they don't/won't/cant stop it, contact their upstream provider. In my opinion I treat it like spam. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Calvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What do others do about the following problem... I have a growing problem. My mail servers spend a good portion of their day sending bounce messages where ex-customers have signed up for a mailing list, but now no longer have an account with me. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribes to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Some time later, user "a" cancels his/her account. However, joke-of the-day continues to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for MONTHS even though my mail server correctly responds with the '550 User does not exist' error message. My server then also sends a full bounce message. Is there some way to stop this? It is getting to the point where the bounce messages are taking up MUCH, MUCH more bandwidth than the "real" email, and is even causing noticable delays in delivery times of "real" email to external addresses. I'm using qmail-1.03 on linux-2.2.12smp. I'm crossposting this on isp-tech and qmail mailing lists. Please respond personally. Eric Calvert Caveland Connection
