On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:59:06 UTC, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:
To were, and from who? I've had mail returned several days after
sending, in the return info it stated that the (my) server had
attempted 'x' times to deliver but each attempt has failed - IOW the
receiving server throws it back to the sending server true, but then
what happens if the sending server has been set up to try again 'x'
times before it returns it to the originator....

A sending server that fails to find an MX record (because the name
doesn't exist) will generally throw it back straight away. This is
different to the case where there *is* an MX record (i.e. the name is
valid) but there is no mail server actually running.

Yes. I've registered . but there is no mail server
facilities set up. So anything sent there simply bounces. Only costs a few
quid a year, and has cut my spam to near zero. Of course it could be my
ISP has decent filtering set up as well - I've had zero viruses or worms
in about a year. As opposed to with Argonet (and my real address) where
there were sometimes hundreds *a day*.

I could do that (since I have a few spare domains and I run DNS and mail
servers for them all). However, the Spamcop address is cheap, provides
excellent filtering and allows people to reply!

--
Bob Eager
begin a new life...dump Windows!