Marc Sherman wrote:
Jeroen van Aart wrote:
"Bounces should only be sent if the receiver knows they'll be "usefully
delivered." This is code for: Don't sent bounces when your system
rejects spam or virus traffic, or you'll become an Internet pariah."

That sounds nice in theory. But how can you ever in a sane manner
determine with reasonable certainty a bounce will be usefully delivered?
If you try to make this work it makes it also more likely legitimate
bounces will not be sent out. Which in turns conflicts with:

"Silently discarding messages is not prohibited, but it is strongly
discouraged."

Or am I missing something totally obvious?

Yes. It means, "reject spam at SMTP time, not by accepting and bouncing.
Only accept messages at SMTP time that you believe you can successfully
deliver."

Hmm, yes, but that's like before, an interpretation on how you think the RFC means.

Honestly I think this RFC still has too much MAY or SHOULD and not enough MUST. This will lead to problems like before.

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