On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Don't, never ever, accept mails to not existing users and don't accept > mails to existing users where you want to prevent them from receiving it > for any policy reason (like spamchecking or virus checking). If you take > the mails you are legally responsible to deliver them; independent if > you are able or not. > You're misrepresenting reality here. You are not _legally_ responsible to deliver e-mail. Well, perhaps you _are_ legally responsible in Switzerland, I won't claim that you aren't, but that's not common in other jurisdictions I'm familiar with. Perhaps you're somewhat _morally_ responsible, from a certain point of view. Typical scenarios where backscatter may result are: - you're running a mailing list server, accept the incoming mail, and then try to deliver it to the list members - you're running a forwarding mail server, e.g. you permit customers to have their custom domainname's e-mail service hosted with you, and forward their messages to Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo accounts, or whatever - you're running a smarthost for other services, e.g. automated equipment such as scanners, surveillance/web cameras, alarm systems, etc. - you're running a smarthost for e.g. web servers While you appear to think that these services shouldn't exist, it would be a very sad day for you when you no longer could participate in exim-users due to them implementing the policy you want and claim is legally compulsory. -- Jan -- ## List details at https://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/
