Re: [sa] Re: Administrator@willspc.net bounces

[Charles Gregory <cg...@hwcn.org>]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Benny Pedersen wrote:
> why did the bounce not go to apache.org ?, or did it, but apache.org did not 
> see the problem in maillist ?

Because we have a caching server accepting the mail, and then when it 
*finally* decides the client is not going to retrieve the mail, it 
generates a bounce using the visible From header. To misquote a line from 
E.E. (Doc) Smith, "I could have eaten a hand full of iron filings and 
*puked* a better mail server than that."

> not even the bounce email exists on the mta, so it will be bounce for 
> anything sent to this domain, why did thay not remove that sucking domain 
> from dns ? :)

I blocked these in my firewall, so I can't tell how old the mail is being 
currently 'returned', but when I was getting them they were for mail that 
was VERY old, like the MTA was giving up on the mail after a specific 
amount of time (like a month or more). This is the reason I opted for a 
firewall solution. That MTA was going to be doing this a long time.

:(

- C