January 11, 2004

Errors With A Smile

Things having been going quite smoothly with qmail. I've particulary enjoyed reading some of the errors that get sent to "postmaster" when people try to use my server as an open relay. For example:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.neumannhaus.com.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!

And

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.neumannhaus.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

You just have to love the self-aware, first-person approach. It's even cordial. :-)

Posted by enigma at January 11, 2004 03:34 PM
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