[Asterisk-Users] smtp question

[Walt Reed]

The headers From:, Reply-To: etc generally ARE things like
MAILER-DAEMON. The envelope sender used in the SMTP conversation and
Return-Path: should be <>.


On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:20:02AM -0600, Brian West said:
> Correct me if I'm wrong here but when a message bounces and the mailer/mta
> generates a bounce message shouldn't the from field have <> in it instead
> of an email addres (ie. MAILER-DAEMON at domain.com).
> 
> The list was nailed with over 13,000 bounce messages(and they keep coming)
> from ONE list subscriber and I wasn't sure if their smtp server wasn't
> doing what it should.  I finally had to just block their domain totally at
> postini to stop the flood of messages.
> 
> I think this was part of the first slowdown and why the list slowed down
> again today.