Our MAILER-DAEMON is spamming us!

From: Glenn Schmid <GSCHMID_at_ccmail.sunysb.edu>
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 15:05:59 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

We're running DU 4.0D+patch with the stock "sendmail V5.65".

If a user sends a mail message with problematic addresses, the user
receives thousands of error notifications from the MAILER-DAEMON.

Typically, the error is Unbalanced '"' such as:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 "Somebody\"" <e-mail-address-here_at_ourdomain.com>,
   ... Unbalanced '"'
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Im *not* asking about the Unbalanced '"' error. That's clear. I want to
know why (and most importantly how to stop) the *massive* number of
identical error messages returned to users.

In one instance last week one of our users received in excess of 50,000
error notifications for a single message that he sent.

Please don't suggest installing V8 sendmail, there are reasons that we
can't.

Thanks in advance,
gschmid+_at_ccmail.sunysb.edu
Received on Fri May 08 1998 - 21:07:14 NZST

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