On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 13:32, Lars E. D. Jensen wrote: > Hi list > > A scenario which happens very often on my server. > > 1. A spammer sends to a non-existent user on my mailserver > 2. My mailserver answers back to the sender (which is also a > non-existent user on another mailserver) > 3. The foreign mailserver answers back to my mailservers admin > e-mailaddress, that the user is non-existent > 4. Message double bounces between the two mailservers. > 5. Message failure is sent to admin e-mailaddress on my mailserver. > > Question: > > Can the chk-user patch avoid these double bounces ?
An emphatic YES! The chkusr patch is extremely good at preventing most of these situations... :) > Or is there some other way of avoiding these unnecessary bounces? > > I haven't installed chk-user patch yet in production. > > > Thanks > > Med venlig hilsen / Best regards > > Lars E. D. Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold Engine / Technology Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] RedHat Certified - RHCE # 803004140609871 MySQL Pro Certified - ID# 207171862 MySQL Core Certified - ID# 205982910 --------------------------- "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming."
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