[cobalt-users] Re: List Bounces - ATTN: List Admin

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:03 PM -0400 9/7/01, Gerald Waugh is rumored to have typed:

> you wrote on: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:30 AM
>
> > Is everyone getting these on posts to the list?

   Gets better; "PeopleWeb" appears to be a single machine (209.249.9.83) in
an ABOVE.NET B-block, apparently "controlled" by ecapital.net (same company)
which has at least two IPs in the same C (68 and 69). The tech contact for
ecapital.net is kenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx that the address that is bouncing
badly is kenn115@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Coincidence? I think not.

   Solution: add the following to the bottom of your /etc/mail/access file
and makemap:

## Idiots with a broken mailer...
MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxx	572 Fix your broken mailer

   (For those not familiar with access, that's a single tab between the
address and the error code/message, not a bunch of spaces.) This will close
the SMTP connection as soon as the envelope sender of the mail daemon
arrives, and will force the error message back to root - which will probably
bounce as well, but that isn't your problem anymore. ;)

   If they start getting _really_ annoying, you can always change it to:

## Idiots with a broken mailer...
peopleweb.com	572 Do not bother me
209.249.9.83	572 Do not bother me

   Draconian, but effective...    ;)

         Charlie