[Asterisk-Users] smtp question

[Brian West]

Yep thats what I was thinking but apparently that isn't what is going on.

We have have 41,000 bounces that have been blocked from said mail server.

The from is the mail server and no return path is set.  EVIL

bkw

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Walt Reed wrote:

> 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.
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