On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 06:11:21PM +0200, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Everyone who post gets this autoreply.
So what do the rest of you do? Ignore it? > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > These people are not spoofing your domain, they set a "From:" header > with no "@domain". Many MTAs append the local domain in this case. > Maybe it's because they use a German umlaut in the "From:" string. That's not a valid email address either, which is still wrong. > Judging from the word "Irrl?ufer", someone at their site has subscribed > to zfs-discuss but does not exist there any more. Then they should send back a message pointing out that the user is not longer there, not just send the whole message back. > > Received: from mail01.csw-datensysteme.de ([62.153.225.98]) > It seems to be a German company (not too far away from me, too. :-) Hmmmm, are you for hire? Maybe you could take a trip out there and deliver some clue. ;) > > > X-Mailer: DvISE by Tobit Software, Germany (0241.444A46454D464F4D4E50), > > As you can see, they use a commercial mail appliance. It's probably > just misconfigured. Email appliances and Exchange servers are the bane of the internet. You don't need to know how to properly setup and email server because now anyone can do it! :) > > I don't know who you are, and honestly I don't think I care, I'm going to > > just > > start firewalling you. I recommend everyone else on the list does the same. > > No need to get uptight, just tell them politely. Eventually they > will figure it out. :-) If they had sent some sort of "this user is no longer here" message or some such I would have been less likely to get all jumpy about it. I'll redirect my misguided anger at yet another poorly managed mail server at the poor sods who admin it. -brian -- "Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
