Hi,

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:15:55PM -0700, Chris Wilkes wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:00:05PM -0400, Daniel Reich wrote:
> > MX records for badspammer.com point to either my mail server's IP or localhost
> > (127.0.0.1).  

I had a similar problem with double bounces, but since these are
99.999% spam anyway, I decided to just nuke them immediately.

> > qmail attempts to send out a bounce notice to the sender. It looks up
> > the MX record for badspammer.com and finds 127.0.0.1. So qmail
> > connects to 127.0.0.1 and attempts to deliver itself the mail. This of

Hmmmm... after the second round, the repeated Received lines should
make the mail bounce, as a wild guess.

> > So it's a valid domain and it technically has valid MX records.  But the MX
> > record data itself is not.

I guess that MX records with the value 127.anything should be mostly
bogus, and having a filter option for that could be useful.

> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail&m=97967261918021&w=2

This doesn't work too well on OpenBSD.


Best,
--Toni++

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