Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

From: Philippe Troin (phil@fifi.org)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 17:08:12 EST


Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org> writes:

> We (abuse@vger.kernel.org -> me & DaveM) got just reports that
> somebody is diverting incoming email to some sort of auto-responding
> ticket system.
>
> The thing does not carry original message "Received:" headers in replies,
> and is reporting invalid URL.
>
>
> Independent of that, people with supposedly working addresses
> are sometimes bouncing:
>
> 1) because their backup MXes don't like the domain they have
> (configuration problem somewhere, you can choose in between
> the DNS data writer, and the backup MX admin)

8< snip >8

> For the subset 1 above, I am preparing to begin to run regularly
> (weekly very least, daily possibly) scanner which tries interactive
> testing of recipients address at all of user's domain's MX servers,
> and if any of the MX systems for user's domain gives a bad
> response for subscriber's address, that user gets the log report
> and some pointers on what to do.

It also sends a report for perfectly working systems... Just got two
of theses... Is this a normal feature of your checking script ?

(Report available upon request)

Phil.
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