In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Today my email bounced, when I wrote with my old email-adress / subdomain, > where I removed the postmaster account, since there were spams to the > postmaster adress. Maybe a lot of you had problems too with 100s of spams in > the last days. So my question is: I know it is against RFC, but does it make > sense to check for the postmaster account of a domain, when writing to the > list? Spammers send spams to postmaster@ and for _me_ there is no need to > have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > failure notice > ... > Remote host said: 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > 550-Several RFCs state that you are required to have a postmaster > 550-mailbox for each mail domain. This host does not accept mail > 550-from domains whose servers reject the postmaster address. > 550 Sender verify failed > Giving up on 66.35.250.206. > > Al
If you're running Linux/Unix, just add this entry to your /etc/aliases file: postmaster: /dev/null This way you have a valid postmaster address, it's just redirected to the bit-bucket... -- Allen J. Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
