[thelist] mail loops, Mail.app bounce to sender
Erik Mattheis
gozz at gozz.com
Sat Mar 8 17:43:01 CST 2003
What happens when a spammer uses a non-existing address to send spam to
a non existing address? How do the mail servers avoid getting locked in
an infinite loop? Like I keep on getting this ... trimmed it so you can
get to the punch-line quicker ...
From: MAILER-DAEMON at home.ro
Date: Sat Mar 8, 2003 8:00:22 AM US/Central
<MAILER-DAEMON at home.ro>:
193.231.236.41 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 553 no such user (#5.5.1)
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Return-Path: <gozz at gozz.com>
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
To: MAILER-DAEMON at home.ro
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Erik Mattheis
GoZz Digital
<http://goZz.com/>
Flash and ColdFusion Development
Minneapolis, MN
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