I should have mentioned that we are also getting spam with blank From's. And yes, the graylisting would start before it got to qmail, so it does sound like a bug.
I'm roughly 3/4 of the way through deleting these blasted nested directories. The new highest one I've found was over 14,000 _none folders nested inside eachother. :-O ~ Bob Alanis Michael Colvin wrote: > But the problem is, it's getting graylisted before it's ever getting > rejected by Qmail. If there is a bug in how the new version is handling > graylisting, which is sounds like there is, then what qmail does with it is > irrelevant, because it's not getting handed to qmail. > > In our case, we're actually getting spam with blank from's. Theses aren't > bounce backs. > > > Michael J. Colvin > NorCal Internet Services > www.norcalisp.com > > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Alanis >> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:16 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; spamdyke users >> Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] super long "_none" directory >> nesting on 4.0.1 >> >> Hello Greg, >> >> That would make sense, but our server is set to outright >> reject email connections if the email address doesn't exist >> (no bounce-back just a refusal during the smtp session). >> It's done that way so that we don't contribute to bounce-back spam. >> >> I have noticed bounces going to our server, but those are >> from third party servers who get spam with a spoofed FROM >> address. Those servers unfortunately bounce the emails back >> to the From: or Reply-To: address listed (which sometimes >> consists of an email address on our server). >> >> ~ Bob Alanis >> >> >> Greg Cirelle Enterprises wrote: >> >>> The unknown (_none) is usually from bounces like >>> >> undeliverable etc... >> >>> Sam mentioned this several days ago >>> >>> probably you are bouncing mail back to junk addresses and >>> >> that server >> >>> is responding to you >>> >>> just a guess >>> >>> >>> Greg Cirino >>> Cirelle Enterprises Inc. >>> 603-425-2221 >>> www.cirelle.com >>> >>> Why email when you can VideoMAIL? !!! >>> >>> Catch the Wave of the Future Now! >>> Video Email, Live Broadcast, Blog, Podcast and more all in >>> >> one Easy To >> >>> Use Package >>> >>> Visit www.321vm.com to learn how! >>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> spamdyke-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
