Len and Sanford, thanks for the info. Will stay the course and reject
invalid messages.
-Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Invalid address bounces...
He says that a mail server should never reject a connection as invalid.
He's flat out wrong. Doubt anything else this person says about mail.
If I sent a message to an invalid address the server should never let
anyone know if the address is valid or not.
Hiding legit recipients among illegit recipients is a really sad,
ineffective anti-abuse policy.
So in the context of the discussion Imail does reveal non-existant email
addresses
That's NOT a problem or weakness of Imail or any MX. Rejecting unknown
recips at the MX is the Best Practice.
which he claims should never be done.
As with Imail anybody@ alias, he's recommending accepting the entire
volume of abuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] and eating it with his mail server, which volume is
MANY times greater than the volume of legit mail. Obviously, this jerk
has never run a high volume mail system.
Len
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