{"id":9,"date":"2006-07-20T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:35:42","slug":"please_configure_your_mailserver_properl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/2006\/07\/20\/please_configure_your_mailserver_properl\/","title":{"rendered":"Please configure your mailserver properly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one who&#8217;s sick of getting bounced email to aliases that <em>never ever ever<\/em> send email, and spammers are obviously forginging headers?  How does spamming my alias with bounces help <em>anything<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nThis is the Postfix program at host smtp.gentoo.org.<\/p>\n<p>I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not<br \/>\nbe delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.<\/p>\n<p>For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster<\/p>\n<p>If you do so, please include this problem report. You can<br \/>\ndelete your own text from the attached returned message.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe Postfix program<\/p>\n<p>xxxp@xxxxxx.co.uk (expanded from amd64@gentoo.org): host<br \/>\n    a.mx.pengus.net[80.249.110.195] said: 550 This message looks like spam.<br \/>\n    This server will not accept spam. (in reply to end of DATA command)<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Please, please, please, <em>please<\/em> configure your mailserver to silently reject spam.  bouncing to an innocent group becuse some ass has forged our address does nothing, except makes <em>YOU<\/em> the spammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one who&#8217;s sick of getting bounced email to aliases that never ever ever send email, and spammers are obviously forginging headers? How does spamming my alias with bounces help anything? Here&#8217;s an example: This is the Postfix program at host smtp.gentoo.org. I&#8217;m sorry to have to inform you that your message &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/2006\/07\/20\/please_configure_your_mailserver_properl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Please configure your mailserver properly!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kingtaco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}