From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 10:13:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A31537B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535F543FE3 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030630171344.KQL16647.out006.verizon.net@mac.com>; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:13:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3F006FBF.8010600@mac.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:13:35 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Beishuizen References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:13:44 -0500 cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list Subject: Re: what actually happens with rejected mail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:13:46 -0000 Marco Beishuizen wrote: [ ... ] > Everything is working fine, but now I wonder what happens with the > spammail that is being rejected? Are those spammails being deleted? Or > are they send back to my ISP? My maillogfiles show that spam is > correctly filtered, and a message with the errorcode is send back. But > who else is seeing those errormessages? Probably nobody. Normally, when your mail server rejects an incoming message with a 5xx, the sending MTA is supposed to generate a DSN to the sender, letting them know that their attempt to mail you failed (with the reason you gave). In the case of spam, that address is typically forged and the spamware MTA may well simply drop the reject. -- -Chuck