Peter Bowyer wrote: > On 10/01/07, Phill Harvey-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Peter Bowyer wrote: >>> On 09/01/07, Phill Harvey-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >> 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. > > No, that's not correct. A reject is the correct course of action. > Genuine MTAs connecting to you will do the 'right thing' with the > mis-typed recipient. Spam MTAs will simply ignore you.
Right, in that case that will do exactly what I need it to. > The action to avoid is 'accept-then-bounce' - where you can't make a > determination at SMTP time, learn later that you don't want the mail, > and have to decide what to do with it after the fact. Exim's ACLs make > this easy to avoid. Yeah that makes sense. Thanks for all who replied to this and for the sugestions they have been most helpfull. 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. -- ## 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/
