>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:20 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [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] Which is what my server does. All "invalid user" errors are handled during the smtp connection process and never delivered to an account. I don't think the problem is caused by this. Brian -- 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/
