That is something that Ive always wanted to know, is how to turn verify off, but alas, due to sheer laziness, I havent read up on it...
On Monday 25 November 2002 15:38, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Dear all, > > I have just received a spam complaint, and unfortunately, some spammers > have been using an address on one of my domains in their Return-Path > and From-headers. How nice of them :-( . This address has never > existed. I'm using the Exim packages from Woody. > > For quite some time, I have seen it show up in my server logs, I'm > rotating them too often, I guess, and I don't remember exactly what I > have seen long ago, but recently I have seen things like: > 2002-11-15 01:48:08 verify failed for SMTP recipient > [EMAIL PROTECTED] from <> H=mta458.mail.yahoo.com > [216.136.130.123] > > I allow VRFY, and most of these come from yahoo.com or hotmail.com, I > guess that has to do with spam filters they use. This address is > probably getting a lot of bounces, which is then bounced off my server, > and I don't want to waste my resources with accepting those, all in all > I want to conserve as much as I can. > > But, is there something I _should_ do in this situation, like including > some text in the bounce saying that this address has never existed, and > is being abused by spammers? If yes, _how_ should I do it? > > I hope this is the right forum to ask... > > Cheers, > > Kjetil -- Daniel J. Rychlik Java/Perl Developer http://daniel.rychlik.ws