"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>>      I bet. I'm thinking about the guy that got 10,000 a SECOND in that 
>> link Gilles and John posted.
>
> I was talking about making a mistake that causes your own code to spam 
> you. :-)

   Heh, ok, I was wondering what you were talking about.  ;)


>
>> I guess I could just change our email addy on our site to a spare one for 
>> now and let this episode fade out even if it is weeks.
>
> If they're bouncing to postmaster, it doesn't matter what *your* site 
> says. You're going to get bounces to postmaster because there's no such 
> AOL user or something.

     Well, yes, I understand this at least, but what I was thinking of is 
the fact that I have to weed out our genuine customers emails. So a change 
of email address would at least be more manageable.


>
>> I think I've got about 75% of them pointing to the DI folder now, so it's 
>> not a massive problem.
>
> If you can afford the bandwidth, it's not really a problem if you can get 
> them tossed out reliably.
>
> Generally, bounces delivered to "postmaster" don't need to be looked at 
> unless one of your users asks why it's bouncing after they threw out the 
> bounce message *they* received. (Or unless of course it's bouncing because 
> you're testing the configuration that isn't working right yet, for 
> example.) It's more a "courtesy cc" of the bounce message than anything.
>
> Me, I'd throw away anything coming into postmaster until it calms down. 
> Nowadays, the postmaster address is useless exactly because of this sort 
> of problem.

     Ok, thanks for that Darren, reassuring. The whole thing seems to be 
calming down at the moment, (there seems to be fewer), but I'm now at 3410. 
I wonder what will show in the morning?

      Thanks for the info and advice.

      ~Steve~


>
> -- 
>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
>     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
>          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
>     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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