On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steve Atkins <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On May 26, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > On 05/26/2010 07:48 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: > >>>> Perhaps I missed something, but if domain B is rejecting email from > the list Authored by A, then won't that cause a list member at domain B to > be removed from the list as well? I think that is what John meant by > innocent bystander. Most MLM remove subscribers after repeated bounces. I > don't know if they are smart enough to look into why the message bounced. > >> > >> That's exactly the issue, and not a theoretical one. > >> > >> However, domain B is not an innocent bystander, as they intentionally > configured their mail system to reject mail it shouldn't, and the recipients > at domain B support that decision, on some level. > > > > Wait a minute. There's nothing wrong with discarding something set to > discardable (cf, "shouldn't"). > > Yup. They didn't do that, though. > > > Or are you saying that it shouldn't produce a bounce/5xx and just > silently discard it? > > Exactly. > Ah, and somehow I missed this part in your earlier message: 'rather than discarding, mails labeled "discardable". ' -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA
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