Seeing many bad emails with bad DNS entries. For example swallowwire.sa.com It has an A record but the MX record points to protection.outlook.com which is an invalid host name, so Microsoft does not give back any ip addresses for this host. I am running a smart host that forwards to my mail server. My personal mail server uses Clamav with the securite extra spam definations. This is causing rejects from my personal mail server and it bounces the email. Now my smart host is trying to send back the NDR to the sender. This is where things go sideways. You have an MX record, but that does not resolve to a valid host ip address. Now the NDR is stuck at the smart host. I have some scripts that monitor the number of queued messages and I get alerts because of the pileup in the message queue on the smart host. In addition there is a minor bug in Surgemail, when I deleted multiple messages from the webadmin interface, Surgemail does not properly clear the unsent yet count or the unsent yet-q count on the Status page. Which is what I am monitoring to determine if there are too many messages stuck in the queue. Where do I go from here to stop this fine mess the spammers put me in? Lyle Giese
Last Message | Next Message