Re: [vps-mail] Question about Sendmail/Spammers

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:07:51 +0200, "Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet"
<mac@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The logical solution is to have no catchall and so random address attacks 
> will fail by getting refused. But remember that bouncing a spam can get
> you blacklisted by SpamCop (see earlier discussion on this).

Reject != bounce

If you REJECT a mail at the SMTP level you will not get listed by any
blacklist except maybe rfc-ignorant.org if you reject a mail to postmaster@
or abuse@. If anyone is going to get listed it's the host who relayed the
message to you - always assuming it's a legitimate relay and not some
cl00bie with a trojanned Windows machine.

If you BOUNCE a mail, in effect you accept it, take responsibility for its
delivery and then realize that you can't forward it anywhere so create a
new mail addressed to the purported sender of the original you accepted and
fire it off. *That* is what's going to get you blackholed.

-- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx

And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports
on it, you know they are just evil lies.
        -- Linus Torvalds
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