On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:34, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> How is this a hostile to the relay? We aren't even accepting the mail. We
> are rejecting it before the conversation between the SMTP servers is
> finished. This email won't even hit your local queue.
It's unlikely you are talking to the original sender. Assume a
forwarding relay has accepted a copy (as I am doing now), then
trying to deliver. If you give a 5xx smtp response you force the
sending relay to construct a bounce. But you know it's impossible
to deliver it.
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Les Mikesell
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