[Mimedefang] Re: On pinheaded ISP's (sort of OT)

[Jan-Pieter Cornet]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:52:58PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >our servers.  If people choose to view that as us being the source of 
> >SPAM, then they are negating the entire point of having backup MX's for 
> >when stuff hits the fan.
> 
> Is 'your' queue better than everyone else's?

Yes. My queue might know when the customer/mailserver gets back online.

> Why not do a 4xx tmpfail 
> if your address check temporarily fails?  Any real MTA should be 
> prepared to queue and retry.

Because not every legitimate MTA retries, or retries often enough.

By the way, if you hate bounce spam, you could always deploy
BATV (http://mipassoc.org/batv/) locally, and reject fake
bounces.

-- 
Jan-Pieter Cornet <johnpc at xs4all.nl>
!! Disclamer: The addressee of this email is not the intended recipient. !!
!! This is only a test of the echelon and data retention systems. Please !!
!! archive this message indefinitely to allow verification of the logs.  !!