Re: smtp servers

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From: Patrick Quinn-Graham
Subject: Re: smtp servers
Date: 22:01 on 04 Dec 2006
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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