Inability to bounce

dcoppard · Cadet Joined: Dec 22, 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Uk

I have been using First Alert for a couple of months and although not perfect, I think is at the least a step in the right direction. I shall probably sign up in due course in view of the suggested cost per annum which seems reasonable.

However I seem to have one problem which I can't seem to resolve. Whenever I bounce an e-mail I get the message:

"senders e-mail address" Failed to resolve remote mx servers: Timed out. No such host.

I have checked the obvious settings which seemed to show that I can bounce e-mails but every single bounce gives me the same message.

Has anyone any clues as to what might be the problem?

Al · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject:

You might be better served by going to the "General Discussion" forum and asking.

It's more or less the considered wisdom that bouncing is no longer an effective anti-spam method, because so many of the spammers use phony addresses.

IMHO, it's a waste of bandwidth.

stan_qaz · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

dcoppard, why don't you give the spamcop.net header parser a try to see if the addresses are forged.

That will keep you from getting bounce errors from bogus addresses and from becoming a spammer yourself by forwarding your spam to someone who has had their address stolen and stuffed into the spam by a header forging spammer.

sighthound · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:

Also try setting your bounce options to "local smtp server only" as this may help with non-forged addresses:
tools >>accounts >>properties>.bouncing and outgoing mail>>advanced account options >>bouncing details>>select the Local option only.

Ikeb · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:30 am Post subject:

But but but, while the suggestion you offer might well help resolve the immediate problem, the larger issue is indeed that bouncing SPAM is outdated technology. Please get your boss to recognize that fact of life and take the appropriate actions.

dcoppard · Cadet Joined: Dec 22, 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Uk

Having read the posts to my query I feel that the option to stop bouncing seems to be the best advice and I will stop that straightaway. I suppose the thought that if people were intent on filling my mailbox with unsolicited rubbish then why shouldn't I do the same to them.

However I appreciate that the best option is almost certainly just delete and report and thats what I intend to do.

Many thanks all for the advice given


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