[PLUG] Comcast Bouncing Outbound Mail

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:42, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:38:31AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >   As my average monthly volume of out-bound e-mail is 400-500 messages, I
> > would hope that even comcast would not consider that the volume of a problem
> > spammer.
> 
> Actually, if you're like me, your MTA is generating bounces for failed
> spam deliveries of a much higher volume. I find that we're generating
> 400-500 messages a DAY, at least, just trying to be RFC-compliant in
> the face of the tides of spam. It is soooooo tempting to turn off
> bounces sometimes.

I generally don't bother bouncing spam; it usually just goes into a
quarantine and gets deleted, or it's rejected before delivery due to the
lack of a valid recipient.

Wil
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