>>>>> Lee Maguire <lee-exim@???> writes:
>> [2002-04-04] Friso Kuipers wrote:
>>> Nice, yahoo renders callout useless.
>>
>> I don't know if it's enough to trip their tests, but Yahoo will block
>> your IP address after some unknown threshold of undeliverable messages,
>> and reject all messages (pointing you to
>> http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-18.html)
Not exactly. AFAICT what they do is issue 4xx errors in case any
mailbox gets over a certain threshold of bouncing mails. There's also a
very obvious looking VS14-RT5 code stuck onto the bounces.
A little bash or perl to pull the queue ids for those mails out of the
mail queue, and feed them to exim -Mrm, has been known to trash a lot of
spam (and in some cases, virii), stuff that'd anyway stay in your queue
or double bounce at some point of time or the other.
-srs