verizon.net and other email grief

Fri Dec 10 23:03:11 UTC 2004

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote:

>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:26:59PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> > One thing that's not clear is whether or not Verizon caches any of
> > this information.
>
> It appears that they do some amount of caching.
>
> 			-Jeff
>

It does not appear that they are caching it, here is a sample from my log
file:

Dec  6 19:18:15 white sm-mta[25976]: iB70IF6n025976: <lopqp at abc.net>... User unknown
Dec  6 19:18:15 white sm-mta[25977]: iB70IF6n025977: <lopqp at abc.net>... User unknown
Dec  6 19:18:16 white sm-mta[25976]: iB70IF6n025976: from=<>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=sc006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.182]
Dec  6 19:18:16 white sm-mta[25977]: iB70IF6n025977: from=<>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=sc019pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.68]
Dec  6 19:18:16 white sm-mta[25976]: iB70IF6o025976: <lopqp at abc.net>... User unknown
Dec  6 19:18:16 white sm-mta[25977]: iB70IF6o025977: <lopqp at abc.net>... User unknown
Dec  6 19:18:16 white sm-mta[25976]: iB70IF6o025976: lost input channel from sc006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.182] to MTA after rcpt
Dec  6 19:18:16 white sm-mta[25976]: iB70IF6o025976: from=<antispam245967 at west.verizon.net>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=sc006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.182]
Dec  6 19:18:16 white sm-mta[25977]: iB70IF6o025977: lost input channel from sc019pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.68] to MTA after rcpt
Dec  6 19:18:16 white sm-mta[25977]: iB70IF6o025977: from=<antispam830748 at west.verizon.net>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=sc019pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.68]

What happens when verizon tries to send email to somebody who does the same
type of check, does this not create an infinite loop?

K