--On 10 January 2007 14:38:14 +0000 Phill Harvey-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Bowyer wrote: >> On 09/01/07, Phill Harvey-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> You can configure the behaviour at this point - whether you blackhole >> them or reject them is up to you - rejecting is generally better >> because a non-zero percentage will be genuine mis-typed addresses >> which should be notified to the sender. > > However, rejecting however will still send a copy of the email back to > the supposed sender, which for the most part will be spam, rather than a > genuine email, so the overall effect is that someone still gets spammed. The word "reject" isn't clearly defined in rfc2821, but in the exim-users mailing list context it usually means issuing a 5xx response to either the HELO, MAIL, RCPT, or DATA commands, or post data. That leave the sending MTA with the responsibility of deciding whether to send a reply. If the sending MTA is, in fact, a spambot, then it won't send a reply. Of course, if another MTA (say another institution forwarding a user's email to yours) has accepted and forwarded a message that you reject, then it might generate a bounce-but that's their problem. > Dunno If there's a good solution to that problem tho :) > > Cheers. > > Phill. > > -- > Phill Harvey-Smith, Computer Technician, > Department of Biological Sciences, Warwick University. > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phone: 024 7652 8385. > "The Days' as dark as the night is long" -- U2, Ultraviolet. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex -- ## 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/
