If you are a "real" man you should give trunk a try ;-)

There is a ValidRcptHandler which reject email on unknown recipients in
the SMTP phase..

bye
Norman

JWM schrieb:
> Vincenzo,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Not typically a 'missing' address.  Rather they just misspelled the email
> address of the recipient.  But in general, it's any time mail arrives on a
> domain and the email address doesn't match a recipient on that domain.
>
> The problem is that I receive nearly 10,000 emails a day with invalid
> recipient names.  Spammers love to simply walk through a dictionary of names
> for recipients hoping for hit.
>
> The problem is that according to the SpamCop website, SpamCop has this
> 'super secret... nobody really knows' "Spam-trap".  There is literally no
> way to filter on the "spam-trap" special address.
>
> I realize that ethically I need to inform legitimate senders that they made
> a mistake on the address.  But in order to do that ~2 times a day, I'm now
> going to bounce the other ~9,998 spam emails per day as well.  And most
> likely hit SpamCop's spam-trap and be blacklisted again.
>
> I am about to lose a client over the fact their email won't get through to a
> server that uses SpamCop's blacklist.  So I HAVE to do whatever it takes to
> not get blacklisted again.  At this point, it means stopping all bounces,
> even for legitimate sender's mistakes.
>
> SpamCop simply says I shouldn't do 'delayed bounce' (i.e. accept all email,
> then send a separate bounce).  Alternatively, I (i.e. my mail server) should
> simply reject the request in the SMTP server if it is an invalid recipient
> address (send a negative response on the inbound mail request).  But that
> means running my virtual address mailet inside the James SMTP server in
> order for it to determine valid/invalid, which I don't think is possible in
> James, is it?
>
> That's why I'm so concerned.  I see no acceptable answer.
>
> Thx again.
>
> Jerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:54 AM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: Re: "Delayed Bounces" and SpamCop
>
> Camron,
>
> I understand that for "undeliverable" you mean that the recipient 
> address is missing, right? In this case you need indeed to bounce back 
> to the legitimate sender that made a mistake.
>
> Why don't you try to match the "'spam trap' email address as the sender" 
> and ghost it in such case, and otherwise bounce back?
>
> Vincenzo
>
> JWM wrote:
>   
>> Could someone give me some suggestions on how to deal with this?  This is
>>     
> a
>   
>> very serious problem.  I don't see a solution that doesn't have serious
>>     
> down
>   
>> sides.
>>
>> How are others dealing with this SpamCop problem?
>>
>> If the question is not clear, please let me know and I'll try to explain
>> further.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Camron G. Levanger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:24 AM
>> To: 'James Users List'
>> Subject: RE: "Delayed Bounces" and SpamCop
>>
>> I am in the same boat, I have just turned off bouncing for now.
>>
>> Camron G. Levanger
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.dreamlabmedia.com-----Original Message-----
>> From: JWM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:12 AM
>> To: 'James Users List'
>> Subject: "Delayed Bounces" and SpamCop
>>
>> SpamCop keeps listing my server as a spammer.  I have my opinions about
>> SpamCop in general and mail servers who would bounce mail solely on a
>> rumor-mill service.  But the fact remains that it's happening.
>>
>> For the record... I have a small set of clients, I'm not an open relay,
>>     
> and
>   
>> I'm certain no spam is being generated out of my server.
>>
>> According to SpamCop, I must be bouncing undeliverable emails (which I
>>     
> am).
>   
>> Apparently, the latest spammer trick is to put SpamCop's 'spam trap' email
>> address as the sender, so when I bounce the email as undeliverable, it
>>     
> goes
>   
>> straight to SpamCop and I am now a "sender of spam".
>>
>> SpamCop says my mail server should simply reject the request immediately
>>     
> as
>   
>> undeliverable and not even accept it.  The way I understand James working,
>> that's not possible.  James accepts everything and then runs the mail
>> through the matcher/mailet/processor chain, right?  So instead of an "I
>> can't accept this email" response, James accepts the mail, and then will
>> send a bounce response email later.
>>
>> What is the answer here?  
>>
>>      1) Simply turn off bouncing on undeliverable (that's my interim
>> fix).  But this means users who send legitimate email to my clients with a
>> simple typo in the address will never know the email was not delivered.
>>      2) leave as is and do delayed bounces (I'll go out of business if
>> SpamCop keeps listing me...)
>>      3) have James do immediate rejection (don't know how to do it...)
>> and since I run virtual addressing, James would still have to run a mailet
>> or two on each inbound connection in order to allow me to tell it whether
>>     
> I
>   
>> want to accept it.  Is that possible?
>>
>> Maybe this problem is already solved, and I'm just unaware.  But at this
>> point, this is a very serious problem for me.
>>
>> Has anybody else been hit by SpamCop??  What is the consensus of opinion
>>     
> on
>   
>> bouncing undeliverable emails?
>>
>> Please help!
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
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