Blocking Delivery Status Notifications?

[Julian Field]

At 09:00 17/10/2002, you wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:47:11 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >Hmmm I now even get bounced messages from spammers that
> >request a delivery notification in their e-mails but then reject receiving
> >it...
> >
> >Anyone having problems with DSN's or is it simply something that is
> >allowed on most sites?
> >
> >
> >   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> ><rosana.cusnir at tecnipublicaciones.com>
> >    (reason: 550 Sorry, this server is configured to refuse this sort of
> >mail (to combat the SPAM problem))
>
>They probably refused the MAIL FROM: <>. You can ofcourse nominate them
>at rfc-ignorant.org.

The messages back to senders are sent from "<>" so that the warnings don't
end up bouncing back to your postmaster.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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