Re: Trying to find out cause of blacklisting

<[email protected]> wrote...

> Arne Bolen wrote:
>
>> A mail server should NEVER bounce email except for its own users. If you 
>> get
>> misdirected email it should be rejected during the SMTP session. Update 
>> your
>> qmail server or get another server.
>>
>> Because you let your server bounce email you deserve to be listed in
>> SpamCop.
>
> As I understand it, applying the neccessary patch(es) to qmail to reject
> instead of bouncing email would break at least two critical
> functionalities, that of the .qmail-default alias, and ezmlm mailing
> lists that we run.  At least one of these patches won't work properly
> with vpopmail virtual domains because of permissions issues.

If your software has critical functionalities that require you to send 
emails
to random strangers just because some spammer forged their email address,
then you need to throw it away and get some software that doen't force you
to send email to people who didn't ask for it.

> Can you post a link to the RFC the server is violating by bouncing email?

Are you under the impression that the RFCs are a comprehensive list of every
single undesirable behavior?  No RFC says that anyone has to accept any
email that you send, and I can assure you that many, many systems will 
reject
your email if you don't figure out how to refrain from sending out email to
people who have never had any contact with you.