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Re: Spamhaus...


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:08:58 -0500

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:46:21 EST, Daniel Senie said:

I don't know when this was that they didn't do validation.

So they validate...

The Barracuda boxes will accept mail for domains they know about but
without validating the email address in the event the target mail server
is down. And yes, it'd be nice if they instead sent back a 421 and let
the email queue at the point of origination in such cases. So if a mail
server is down and comes back up, some emails will likely be present in
the queues that shouldn't have been accepted.

Except for when they don't, and instead of 421'ing they backscatter.

Gotcha.




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