[NCLUG] mail.frii.com is depreciated?

[James DeWitt]

I asked about this on frii-tech since Frii's web mail client was
also using mail.frii.com until recently:

On Monday 03 June 2002 02:18 pm, Andy Neely wrote:

> The @mail.frii.com mail path was disabled on May 22nd. That hostname
> usage was quite popular for spammers since it's the actual hostname
> of our core mail serve. That also made it hard to route it through
> MailArmory as we have for the other hostnames that are abused that way.
> A spot check before the change found no obvious use of @mail.frii.com
> for legitimate non-spam mail, but the spam volume was high enough that
> some use for valid user email was apparently overlooked.
>
> We discovered and corrected the MailMan error on May 24th. The
> @mail.frii.com hostname was never intended to be valid for direct
> mail delivery but we realized too late that the MailMan system long
> ago selected that as the default domain for a MailMan user. The
> scripts were corrected immediately but since MailMan has been in use
> for a while it may well effect some users, especially for something
> like a mailing list (which with often strictly adhere to the address
> it's provided). Mailing lists don't read the rejections (though
> sharp admins do -- Hi Matt!) so if you used FRII's webmail when
> subscribing you may need to update your address on the mailing list.
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