Re: Recipient MTA is rejecting bounces

2000-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Yusuf Goolamabbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have a qmail-1.03 machine saw in my queue a few bounces in them. Also, looking at my logs I saw the following message @40003905243f24daf1b4 delivery 34: deferral:

Re: Recipient MTA is rejecting bounces

2000-04-25 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
A bounce message bounced. When this happens, qmail generates a double-bounce and tries to send it to the local postmaster address. It uses the completely invalid envelope sender "#@[]" to ensure that double-bounces can't then bounce again and generate mail loops. You apparently are

Re: Recipient MTA is rejecting bounces

2000-04-25 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25 Apr 00, at 19:36, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: That is true, However I changed the forwarding to another system which doesn't do resolveable name checks and yet the messages are continuing to go the old system. (I changed

Re: Recipient MTA is rejecting bounces

2000-04-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Also, Do people see the benifit in doing resolvable name checks. Doesn't it hurt in the above scenario It encourages spammers to abuse real domain names so that someone can sue them. There have been a couple of successful law suits over sending spam with someone else's domain name. It keeps

Re: Recipient MTA is rejecting bounces

2000-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Yusuf Goolamabbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is true, However I changed the forwarding to another system which doesn't do resolveable name checks and yet the messages are continuing to go the old system. (I changed /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster) and restarted qmail. Is this

Recipient MTA is rejecting bounces

2000-04-24 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
Hi, I have a qmail-1.03 machine saw in my queue a few bounces in them. Also, looking at my logs I saw the following message @40003905243f24daf1b4 delivery 34: deferral: