fpsupport (was Re: segmentation violation in fp)

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> Well I guess it's a good thing I opened up my /dev/null rule for
> Mailer-Daemon then, or I'd never have seen it.

If you /dev/null all bounces, how would you get "real" bounces?  I
would think that you would at least whitelist your ISPs bouncer
address, even if you blacklist everyone else's.

> fairlite.com (for whatever reason) has been "hijacked" in several spam
> campaigns, where they just spam a continent-load of people with
> random-letter addresses like alkhgasdww at fairlite.com, and -I- get all the
> bounces.

It happens to every domain at one time or another.  Rather than generating
entire user at domain names, they send random usernames, but fix the domain
name for a while.  Then they proceed to forge another domain name.

>  When it was >200/day, I tossed all mail from Mailer-Daemon
> entirely out the window for a few months.  I only recently opened it back
> up by putting additional body scanning in for a valid fairlite.com email
> address that I'd have sent from.

At least that way, you get real bounces back.

> If it had still been blocked, I'd never have known about the change, nor
> known to resend.  I had about as much reason to toss mailer-daemon as you
> did to close the old support address.  :)

Well, as I said, the same would apply to any e-mail you sent that bounced
for any reason.

> You can't always depend on someone having seen something like that these
> days. :(

I believe the "contact us" page on the website has the newer address on
it.

> And those that see it still may not know what to do about it, even
> if it's in plain english like it was.

Too bad we're not in a position to say "well, if they're not smart enough
to read the plain English message telling them exactly what to do instead,
we don't want to hear from them".  ;-)

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