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++
