On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Riaz Oosman wrote:
>
> >If XMail accept a message from you *and* the sender email address is
> >correct, XMail always sends bounces in case the remote server will bounce.
>
> Hi Davide,
>
> I agree with you that if Xmail receives an error message from a remote server,
> it will send back an error message to the user. However, I received complaints
> from a couple of users that they were not receiving email if they
> accidently mistyped
> an email address to hotmail or yahoo.
> I just assumed it was a human error and didn't really think much of it.
> Later, they called me back and said that indeed, when they sent an email
> to a non-existent user at yahoo or hotmail, they would never get an
> undeliverable
> message.
>
> I experimented on my own.
> I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> and ran TCPDUMP.
There you go. Tried sending to the same address:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[<00>] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=[550
Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable]
[<01>] Error sending message [1079112989421.458779.x35.xmailserver.org]
from [xmailserver.org].
ID: <S10AF3A>
Mail From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rcpt To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Server: <mc8.law1.hotmail.com> [65.54.253.230]
[<02>] The reason of the delivery failure was:
550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
[<05>] Here is listed the initial part of the message:
X-AuthUser: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com
by xmailserver.org with [XMail 1.18 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server]
id <S10AF3A> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:36:29 -0800
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:36:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test
Message-ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
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You are allowing the null sender (<>), don't you?
- Davide
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