[TriLUG] Re: Postfix, Relay and nc.rr.com

[jason at monsterjam.org]

damn, yall are right, seems its a "bug" in qmail.. I see there are patches 
available to fix that..

Jason

> > "user xxxx not valid" back to whoever sent it, which goes through to 
> > roadrunners server. now after a while, roadrunner will see a buttload of 
> > emails coming from your device being relayed through their server, and 
> > they will think,  "hey YOU are spamming people!", even though all you are 
> > doing is replying to all those emails with the no such user reply.
> 
> You are doing something wrong if your SMTP server is accepting these
> messages and *then* sending back the 'user xxxx not valid' error
> messages.  That check should be happening at the 'RCPT TO:' phase of the
> SMTP transaction and not after the message is accepted and sitting in
> your mail queue.
> 
> --[Lance]
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