[plug] email error messages

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Sun Feb 13 10:52:34 WST 2000


russ wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
>> If you are also Postmaster for a SendMail site, these will be
>> bounces from users with an invalid return addresses on them. You
>> could try forcing userid on your outbound mail, and stamping
>> each message with an appropriate Errors-To header.

> It's just me on my home computer. I don't use sendmail.

You hope (-:

> I have no idea who those email addresses are.

Unlikely but possible scenario - someone who _is_ a postmaster mistyped
their address; there might be a sysadmin named russ at "powertech.com"
for example. Another possibility: someone is relaying spam through your
box.

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