Re: [vps-mail] bouncebacks going to postmaster instead of sender

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:56:45 -0600, Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation"  (H. H.
> Munroe)
> 
> ;-)

Agreed. And I understood why you introduced it :)

What made me sit up and write that was the fact that the situation you
described would result in Yahoo's postmaster getting the DSN, not
yourserver's.

> The distinction is a fine one, especially when you consider MTAs like
> qmail, which accept all mail by default

Not for nothing are there patches to qmail that correct this behaviour:

http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/spamcontrol.html
http://www.nrg4u.com/

- -- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx

QOTD - "It was so cold last Winter that I even saw a lawyer with his
hands in his own pockets"
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