On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Hal Dell wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Hal Dell wrote: > > > > Recently a SPAMer started sending eMails to the server using a > > dictionary for eMail addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > etc. Then the eMail Servers trys to send an eMail message back to the > > sender indicating the eMail was NOT delivered because of a bad eMail > > address. > > > On Wednesday, October 03, 2007 2:28 PM Davide wrote: > > > > Why doesn't your server reject bad addresses at SMTP level?? > > In *my* server, that stuf never even souch the spool. Actually, 99+% of > SPAM > > gets puked on at RBL level. > > That's not been my experience. We have RBL (Zen) turned on at the head of > our > network and we dump like some 4000 eMails per hour during the day before > they > even get to xMail. The eMails that I am talking about get thru that filter > check. > > I'm sorry, I should have said that we are running xMail V1.24 at present -- > so I guess > I'm saying that our xMail Server V1.24 does NOT reject the bad destination > eMails > in the MTA session -- they seem to get queued for later retry delivery > attempts and > eventually an NDR is sent.
Man, that depends on how you set it up. Not on XMail. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
