--On 26 March 2008 05:18:44 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eino Tuominen writes: > > > You are missing the point. Of course you can inform of a delivery > > problem, but only when you really need to do it. Every organisation > > should know of every recipient within their authority. You should know > > the recipient if you accept a message for delivery from outside your > domain. > > Says who? There is nothing in the standards that says so. And if you > take that seriously, you have to disable .forward and procmail for > individual users, as well as refuse to allow open subscription mailing > lists and the like. This may make sense in the U.S. Army and in > corporations with a military authority structure, but it does not in > most universities, research, or open communities. No, that's not true. I have about 10,000 users here. They have access to .forward files, but only a handful have worked out how to use them. Actually, we let them set auto-replies but only after the email has passed a very strict spamassassin threshold, and its rate limited, and its only for personal email (To and CC: recipents, no list headers, etc). We do have open subscription mailing lists. What we don't do is bounce emails with bad recipient addresses. > That is *not* the way Internet mail is designed to work. Mail, like > every other application on the Internet, is intended to be > decentralized. It is designed to allow load-sharing by use of > intermediate and/or secondary MXes to handle primary crashes or > overloads. Yes, but they need to have equal access to user databases. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
