Re: [mlmmj] message probes

[Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>]

On 10/19/10 11:39, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Florian Effenberger<floeff@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> some people complain, that from time to time they receive message
>> probes ("The messages X, Y and Z could not be delivered to you").
>> Under which conditions are they sent? Only with 5xx SMTP errors, or
>> also with 4xx SMTP errors?
>
> If the mailserver gets a 4xx reply, it doesn't bounce the mail at
> first, but keeps trying. So mlmmj wont see those before the smtpd
> gives up. What it could be is that when some services bounce spam
> instead of rejecting on smtp level, they bounce it (correctly) to the
> envelope from. And any mail coming in to an mlmmj bounce address will
> be added to the probe queue. Go have a look in the list archive
> directory, and see if any of those numbers is not indeed spam.

I have also seen from time to time, that people forward their mail to 
two accounts. One of them is the one they actually use which works fine 
and the other one bounces mails sent to it.

That setup will ensure them a lot of bounce probes. :)

-- 
Christian Laursen