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BATV - no more invalid bounces August 29, 2007

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BATV implemented on haybaler. baconhouse and joshua to follow. Give mad props to Cheesy. Doesn’t mean much to you? Keep reading.

As many of the sack friends and family are aware, spammers like to forge legitimate domains in their spam runs which can cause massive amounts of blowback (spam bounced by the recipients, with the bounces going to the forgery victim).

This is where BATV comes to the rescue. BATV is a means of ensuring that you only receive bounces of emails that you actually sent.

The implementation of BATV on the sack infrastructure can best be described as “crowbar’d in”. This means that unless you send your mail through haybaler (via port 25 or 587 - NOT via /usr/sbin/sendmail) you will not get ANY bounces at all.

I’ll just take this opportunity to remind you about the mail relay configuration document on the Wiki.

baconhouse rides again! August 27, 2007

Posted by scromp in : infra , 1 comment so far

After a good long vacation, baconhouse has been rehomed in Lexington, KY at the Blue One / Openworld NOC. Thanks to Adam R. for the long and heftily-piped stay at Telehouse!

So the blogs (obviously), gallery, and all the rest are back and working, along with a number of upgrades that are complete and some others yet to come.