RE: [cobalt-users] admin message from email

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've got a site where they leave the vacation message on just 
> about full time, with reason and this is not really a 
> problem. However they do get a bit of spam and a lot of those 
> have faked addresses and I get quite a few of these come back 
> each day;
> 
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors 
> ----- admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (expanded from: 
> <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
> 
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 451 admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx exit-mail.com: Name server timeout 
> Message could not be delivered for 5 days Message will be 
> deleted from queue
> 
> The question is really what the heck is exit-mail.com?

I would guess that exit-mail.com was the faked domain in the spam your
server tried to reply to.

> Is there a way of filtering something like this away as it 
> really is just 100% spurious? Should I add exit-mail.com into 
> the gui as a banned url?

If it's happening often, I'd say yes.

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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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