Re: [exim] Re: [Exim] Transports

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Author: Graham Dodd
Date:  
To: Alan J. Flavell
CC: Exim users list
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: [Exim] Transports
Hello Alan,

Friday, June 25, 2004, 12:35:56 PM, you wrote:

AJF> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Graham Dodd wrote:


>> all this mail get's rejected and sent back to the "non-existent" sender.

AJF>
AJF> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


AJF> OUCH. We're keeping the spam out OK[1], but when the spammers fake
AJF> our addresses as sender, we're being flooded by these stupid
AJF> non-delivery reports!!! I had to temporarily block several
AJF> otherwise-respectable German MTAs for making a pesky nuisance of
AJF> themselves with these daft reports.


Luckily I'm not respectable ;-)

>> All I want to do right now is drop the mail.


AJF> What's wrong with rejecting it at SMTP time? The zombies which the
AJF> spammers are using to relay the spam won't be trying to report the
AJF> nondelivery to anyone, thank Goodness.


thanks to Neil and Richard I now have an SA rule in place to reject at
delivery time



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Best regards,
 Graham                            mailto:g.dodd@falk-ross.de