On 8/9/2011 1:18 PM, Gary Chambers wrote: > All, > > I apologize in advance for this Postmaster 101 question. > > Am I correct in understanding that every mail server that is 1) > attempting > to deliver e-mail to an invalid address on my server and 2) is > from=<>, and > 3) the message did not originate on my server is improperly configured?
A good guess, but not absolute proof. > IOW, if every postmaster configured their mail server to reject mail > to an > invalid recipient, would backscatter no longer exist? The other significant source of backscatter is servers that accept mail and then bounce it due to policy reasons, such as labeling the message spam or a virus. -- Noel Jones
