[Mailman-Developers] before next release: disable backscatterin default installation

[Jo Rhett]

On Mar 26, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> Jo Rhett wrote:
>> More to the point, I solved this problem for the Navy.  2.5  
>> MILLION e-
>> mail accounts, and they needed to stop accepting e-mail for accounts
>> which didn't exist.
>
> I assume you're talking NMCI.  I just tested this by sending to a  
> bogus
> NMCI address from .com and .mil (non-NMCI) and in both cases the bogus
> messages were accepted by NMCI.  This has always been a major issue  
> with
> NMCI and has caused many problems.  Good for you if you fixed it,  
> but it
> still seems to be broken from my end of the Navy.

I have no idea who NMCI is.  They might have changed acronyms.  At  
the time it was Navsea, SEA-05 (and SEA-04 administration).   It was  
also a ccMail gateway.  My god, I hope they aren't still using that ;-)

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness