Re: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-20 Thread Kai MacTane
At 3/18/2000 12:56 PM -0500, Bob Rogers wrote or quoted: Users reply to the damnedest things. If an MTA is configured to generate mail from "rumpelstiltskin", then it ought to be configured to accept mail for "rumpelstiltskin" as well. I would have to agree with this first sentence. I have a

RE: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-20 Thread Stephen Bosch
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Re: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:16:57 -0600 . . . It is debatable whether or not adding an alias for MAILER-DAEMON is useful. Double bounce replies shouldn't be sent back to MAILER-DAEMON and humans should send requests to the postmaster if the

RE: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-15 Thread smanjourides
Title: RE: Bounce Loops? Hmmm, I guess I wasn't asking exactly what I want. I need to know how QMail detects a message as being a bounced bounce. Example: Mr.Spammer sends email to my QMail server. The envelope has a non-existent return address. The msg is sent to a non-existent user on my

Re: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-15 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:41:45AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, I guess I wasn't asking exactly what I want. I need to know how QMail detects a message as being a bounced bounce. Example: Mr.Spammer sends email to my QMail server. The envelope has a non-existent return

Re: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. If you installed qmail correctly, you would have created an account called mailer-daemon, which is required to be RFC compliant. I believe the only required e-mail account is postmaster. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-15 Thread Adam McKenna
Really? I thought root and mailer-daemon were requirements. OK, how about "If you installed qmail according to the instructions in my HOWTO, LWQ or README.alias" :) --Adam On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:37:08AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. If you

Re: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-15 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:37:08AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. If you installed qmail correctly, you would have created an account called mailer-daemon, which is required to be RFC compliant. I believe the only required e-mail account is

Bounce Loops?

2000-03-14 Thread smanjourides
How does QMail handle bounced bounces? - Scott

RE: Bounce Loops?

2000-03-14 Thread Stephen Mills
Title: RE: Bounce Loops? man qmail-send reveals all Cheers --Stephen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bounce Loops? How does QMail handle bounced bounces? - Scott