On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:38, Marc Sherman wrote: > Leonardo Boselli wrote: > > Il 5 Feb 2006 alle 16:21 Marc Sherman immise in rete > > > >> Many servers will simply drop your traffic silently, or quarantine > >> it. > > > > I think this would break the rules ... one is free to not accept a > > message, but once accepted have to be delivered or bounced. > > I'm not saying they _should_ be dropping his traffic; I'm saying they > _do_. Running a reliable mail server is in many ways a pragmatic task, > not a legalistic one. Adam and Daevid can rail at the operators of > those servers all they like about following the rules, but that's not > going to get their mail delivered. Routing all mail through a > non-blacklisted smarthost, on the other hand, will.
I take your point, but I do think there is a bit of hypocrisy floating around here on this issue: people condemn what Daevid and I want as *wrong* -- even though I genuinely don't think it violates the RFC -- but condone (at least tacitly) violations on the "receiving end". -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
