On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
But it still remains, I'm looking to find what people think is
the best way on an MX host to do the rejecting at SMTP time.
I'm coming to this conversation kind of late, so I apologize if I've
missed something important earlier in the threa
> > Bango said that if his mom can't spell his name right, he doesn't
> > care if he gets her emails. :)
> >
>
> fair enough (he can also discard delivered mail anyway). but I've seen a
> lot of people subscribing to services with a mistyped address (their
> own) and then calling us to co
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming
to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user being
fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY
EXISTED. About 1 ever 3/4 of a second.
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. In as much as I'd like to help the community,
> > I'm under a set of constraints. Starting a whole other server to start
> > doing
> > this isn't something that fits under those constraints. It looks like
> > I'll probably just end up having to /dev/nul
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply. In as much as I'd like to help the community,
> I'm under a set of constraints. Starting a whole other server to start
> doing
> this isn't something that fits under those constraints. It looks like
> I'll probably just end up having to /dev/null them as I hav
At 11:01 09-03-2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming
to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user being
fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY
EXISTED. About 1
>
> Automatic reporting - that's another thing entirely. As was pointed out in
> previous replys, the user
> community is not always accurate in reporting what is legit spam, and what
> is/was requested
> or "permitted". I tend to report manually, although I am writing some code
> to semi-auto
>
> At 17:51 08-03-2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > As part of it all, I also want to try to keep disk usage and CPU
> >down to as little as possible. With 120,000 per day, thats a junk mail
> >every 3/4's of a second. Since I have it set to deliver to /dev/null, I
> >reduce the amount
