[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > well, dunno if this is your problem, but this is something that I ran into > and you need to be aware of as well if youre doing this.. > > if your server/domain have been up for a while, youll start to notice > emails coming to people that dont even exist on your domain. > i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.. > > Its the winblows spambots spewing their crap trying to guess names on your > domain. Well, your smtp server will probably respond (like it usually > should) saying > "user xxxx not valid" back to whoever sent it, which goes through to > roadrunners server. now after a while, roadrunner will see a buttload of > emails coming from your device being relayed through their server, and > they will think, "hey YOU are spamming people!", even though all you are > doing is replying to all those emails with the no such user reply.
You are doing something wrong if your SMTP server is accepting these messages and *then* sending back the 'user xxxx not valid' error messages. That check should be happening at the 'RCPT TO:' phase of the SMTP transaction and not after the message is accepted and sitting in your mail queue. --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
