From: Patrick Quinn-Graham Date: 18:01 on 04 Dec 2006 Subject: smtp servers Dear smtpd* authors, Please please please make your smtp software stop sending Mail delivery failed type messages in response to Mail delivery failed type messages. I'm quite sick of the bounces in reply to bounces littering my postmaster inbox. with hate, Patrick * I don't know if there's any one smtpd that does this more than others, the two most recent seem to have been through qmail and exchange.
From: Aaron J. Grier Date: 21:51 on 04 Dec 2006 Subject: Re: smtp servers On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:01:28AM -0800, Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote: > Please please please make your smtp software stop sending Mail > delivery failed type messages in response to Mail delivery failed > type messages. I'm quite sick of the bounces in reply to bounces > littering my postmaster inbox. isn't that what the null envelope <> is supposed to handle?
From: Patrick Quinn-Graham Date: 22:01 on 04 Dec 2006 Subject: Re: smtp servers On 4-Dec-06, at 1:51 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:01:28AM -0800, Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote: >> Please please please make your smtp software stop sending Mail >> delivery failed type messages in response to Mail delivery failed >> type messages. I'm quite sick of the bounces in reply to bounces >> littering my postmaster inbox. > > isn't that what the null envelope <> is supposed to handle? In theory. If they wouldn't send back to postmaster anyway. How they manage this is beyond me, but somehow they do. It's fallout from spam of course, so ultimately I guess I hate spam, but that's a little obvious. ~patrick
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