Spamcop.net RBL blocking emails by mistake?

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Tue Sep 12 21:32:31 IST 2006


Drew Marshall spake the following on 9/12/2006 12:06 PM:
> 
> On 12 Sep 2006, at 18:49, Scott Silva wrote:
> 
>> Alex Neuman van der Hans spake the following on 9/12/2006 9:29 AM:
>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>
>>>> Your server bounces with no user by that name because RFC's say you are
>>>> supposed to bounce it.
>>>
>>> Are you sure you're supposed to "take it all in and then bounce it"? I'm
>>> not sure you're *required* to "take it all in"; IIRC you always have the
>>> right to reject it at the MTA level, right?
>> Alex, you and Drew are both right! I guess I should visit the coffee pot
>> before I start reading the list!!  ;-)
>> I got it when my secondary MX accepted the message and then bounced it
>> when
>> the primary rejected it. I am currently trying to get mimedefang going
>> on them
>> to do call-aheads.
> 
> Remind me, which MTA are you running?
Sendmail. I just happily started watching mimedefang drop unknown users on the
backup MX's. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA spammers!!!!!

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