Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Transistor Sister wrote:

> We are currently experiencing a DoS attack against our mail relays.

Pardon me for noting that your mailserver seems to be broken.

If a message is undeliverable it will be bounced BUT if the bounce message can not be delivered it will be discarded immediatly to prevent double bounce loops.

See also RFC 2821 section 4.5.5

Hugo.

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