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List:       qmail
Subject:    RE: Yahoo bounces filling queue?
From:       "David Hubbard" <dhubbard () dino ! hostasaurus ! com>
Date:       2004-09-30 21:23:27
Message-ID: FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A173C78BDB () dino ! hostasaurus ! com
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From: Dave Sill [mailto:de5@sws5.ornl.gov] 
> 
> "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:
> 
> >We've got servers where 30% of the queues are bogus yahoo bounces
> 
> Are you using a spam filter to prevent sending bounces to obvious
> spam?
> 
> Have you considered not bouncing anything to yahoo, or not bouncing
> anything at all?

These are messages that have made it past the spam
filtering and hit non-existent users and are bouncing
as undeliverable.  It's incredible how much of this
garbage is accumulating.  Is there a way for me to
prevent bounces to Yahoo addresses only?  We've done
this on the anti-spam gateways via a bogus smtproutes
entry for them but maybe there's a more optimal way
so the message never sits in the queue.  I don't want
to not bounce, that would anger a lot of users.

> 
> How about spooling yahoo.com mail to a maildir using a virtualdomains
> entry and delivering it using maildirsmtp?

I don't think we can do that because customers want
to email yahoo and have immediate delivery.

David

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