[ changed Subject: since this is no longer helping the OP ] On 2007-12-20 at 09:51 +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: > Lots of the considerations below (privacy, for example) also apply in the > UK. You'd expect that, as we're both in the EU. However, none of the > considerations below prevent us from rejecting email from (for example) > known spam sources.
When I was postmaster at an ISP in NL, the Dutch legal situation was, to my non-lawyer understanding, that you we couldn't just discard mail, because it's not our property to discard. We could reject, leaving it up to the sending system to generate a bounce, because we never accepted responsibility for the message; alternatively, we could accept and then, based on our best guess (ie the spam filter's heuristics) for how to deliver the mail to the user, we could then deliver it to a different collection point for the user (a spam folder; for POP3 collection, spampop.isp.tld:666) instead of the normal place. The user had to have the option to turn off delivery to the spam-folder and accept it all in their inbox. In short, the lawmakers there agree with the designers of SMTP about responsibility in accepting email and not "frivolously" discarding it. -Phil -- ## 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/
