Good option. Real senders get the notification they need and
misdirectred NDRs don't happen.

The only problem I see there, from a filtering point of view, is that it
makes directory harvesting much easier.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       554
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       554
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       354, Please spam the hell out of this valid
address.

-- 
be - MOS

A company is known by the men it keeps.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:27 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Email philosophy 101 - Spam NDRs
> 
> 
> 3) You should get a spam solution that will do realtime 
> recipient checking and 554 them during SMTP.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce- 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of East, Bill
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:03 PM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: Email philosophy 101 - Spam NDRs
> > 
> > Let's say we get 1000 messages with invalid addresses into our spam 
> > filter.
> > 950 of them will get caught as spam if we filter them.
> > 49 slip past the filter but shouldn't have. They're directory 
> > harvesting messages, invalid return addresses, and valid return 
> > addresses of people who didn't send the spam.
> > 1 is a message from one of our customers asking for directions, that
> he
> > fat-fingered to MemmerService
> > 
> > Should we send NDRs on the 49 spammy ones so that the customer gets
> his
> > NDR? Or should we silently drop his message so that we're 
> not sending
> > 49
> > NDRs that we shouldn't?
> > 
> > Please use a #2 pencil.
> > 
> > 
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