At 02:56 PM 8/20/01, Travis Turner wrote:
>At 02:37 PM 8/20/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>Just like the message says, it's the bounce bouncing.
>>
>>Some spammer tries to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], a nonexistent
>>account. Qmail says "no mailbox here by that name", and proceeds to
>>send the message back to its originator, "unknown
>>(4.48.164.237)". That is, of course, an invalid address, and the
>>return bounces to postmaster.
>>
>>cheers,
>>Todd
>
>I understand that but I get about 10 of these a day all double
>bouncing. I understand why they are double bouncing but how are they
>getting the relay through in the first place to an address that will
>bounce?
There's no relaying involved here.
The spammer is sending mail to users with the appliedi.com domain,
which your qmail installation is correctly accepting mail.
I suppose putting an empty .qmail-default file would make the messages
go away. All messages addressed to invalid accounts would just
disappear, then (I think).
cheers,
Todd
