"Jason R. Mastaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "Jason R. Mastaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > This is related the to recent ``blacklisting the free webmail
> > providers'' thread on tmda-users.
> >
> > I thought I'd prototype this using TMDA with only my own mail first
> > before doing it at the MTA level.
> 
> To follow up, I'm now doing this with the following entry in my
> FILTER_INCOMING:
> 
>  # refuse mail from unknown freemail sources
>  from-file ~/.tmda/lists/freemail bounce=bounce_freemail.txt

I know you eventually want to block at the MTA level and that this is
just a test, but for anyone else considering bouncing this crud at the
TMDA level, you should probably just drop them instead.

For example, I have 172 messages in pending with an envelope sender
from yahoo.com, none of which came from Yahoo.  I have verified this
by running the IPs of the last relays before the mail hit my machines
through DJB's dnsfilter and grepping for yahoo.  Not a one of those
messages actually originated at Yahoo.  Which means every one of the
bounces I would generate from TMDA will just get double-bounced, the
same as a confirm message would.

Save yourself the trouble (and Yahoo's servers the load of telling you
the account is invalid) and just drop them.


Tim
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