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Date:  Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:02:26 -0800
From:  "Andrew Danneffel" <adanneffel (at mark) atomation.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:16179] No such user here
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <026f01ca75f6$a20ee450$4001a8c0@Maxwell>
X-Mail-Count: 16179

Hi there,My Blue Quartz server is constantly being hammered with email to users =that do not exist on the server (I believe they are referred to NDRs).  =The maillog lists thousands and thousands of these "No such user here" =errors each day.  Strangely the vast majority of them are to two =domains, each which start with "a".  I don't believe the server is =automatically sending out responses to these senders as this has been =happening for some time and the server is not blacklisted from what I =can see.  I understand that these messages are from spammers and that =the sender email addresses are spoofed.I am wondering what (if anything) can be done to prevent the server from =processing and logging all of these useless messages.  I suspect all of =these mail requests are generating significant data transfer.  Is it =simply a fact of life or can some component of the mail system be =optimized to stop it? Thanks,Andrew
	

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