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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:19:59 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <4bcea71f.2GWYHPZ3ZYYB6t8t%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BCD5F2B.4050705@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> One bounce is bad enough if it goes back to the whole list
> -- but that could be excused as a momentary aberration.
> Any more than that is grounds for reporting the message to
> postmaster@freebsd.org and having the sender blacklisted:
> anyone that configures a mail server to send error notifications
> to an entire mailing list needs a) to spend some quality time
> studying the SMTP RFCs and b) to step away from the keyboard
> /now/ as they are clearly not competent to run a mail server
> on the Internet.

I've seen no indications of the bounces going to the list, only to
the sender (i.e. I posted 4 messages to freebsd-questions@ and got
back 4 bounces; I didn't get bounces that seemed related to anyone
else's posts).  However, it does look as if someone needs to teach
that mailserver about the Errors-To: header.

> Thoroughly recommend using relaydb(1) to teach your mail system
> where you've received spam from in the past and make sure it
> doesn't happen again ...

I let my uucp(!) upstream's Red Condor spam filter deal with that
sort of problem :)



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