--On 20 August 2007 20:38:10 +1000 Ted Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >> --On 19 August 2007 15:35:39 +1000 Ted Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> "If you discard all the recipients either individually at RCPT TO:, or >>> all together at MAIL FROM: or DATA, then the delivery will not happen >>> and all you'll get it a log line. The sender does get the "550-Your >>> message .." and not a 220." >>> >>> ie. They both win. Yes, you get a fake reject message, but no you don't >>> get a delivery if all recipients are discarded. >> >> Is that different from a real rejection? You say "I'm not going to >> deliver this message", then you don't deliver it. Sounds to me like >> "Fake reject" + "Discard" = "Real reject", even if you've discarded at >> a time when you could no longer do a real rejection. >> > > It's a 550 reject, anything after that is just text to help assist > humans. It could say "Purple money dishwasher" for all the sending MTA > cares. So there's no difference between a complete reject vs fakereject > in regards to SMTP. What you do it once it's fakerejected by your system > is entirely up to you. If you discard all the recipients first, you will > not get a message to play with. > Yes, I understand that. I guess I'm saying that, if you discard a message after issuing a "fake reject", then the reject isn't fake any more. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
