On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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. If the forwarding relay cannot construct a bounce, it really has no business accepting the mail in the first place. Besides, just because you cannot deliver a bounce, that doesn't mean the forwarding relay cannot. An internal DNS, or mailertable are two ways that it could. Jim McCullars University of Alabama in Huntsville _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
