Natu writes: > One difference between my method and yours is that my mail logs > will show that somebody actually replied to that address where as > with yours the reply would stop at the senders SMTP server. Not > that significant, but it might be useful to know if users are using > those addresses.
If you want that information you might as well run the forwarding service. You're imposing what may be significant costs for non- technical users, who are likely to be confused by the fact that your server at rjl.com is responding to a message they sent to aol.com. > I could add something that will make it clear that the addresses is > not emailable, though my sense is that most users would get that > the way it is, especially if they tried to email it and it failed. But the percentage of AOL and Yahoo! users who would understand is likely to be much lower, if not a small minority. People use those services *because* they don't want to learn about email, they just want it to work. And the posters are likely to get upset if you make it hard for them to receive personal replies; a send -- DSN -- resend cycle may take a long time (especially if the sender has to ask technical support "WTF?" :-/ ) I thank my lucky star that almost none of my users use those domains, and so far 100% of those that do have thanked me for explaining the problem and switched to posting from GMail or whatever. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
