Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matt Ghali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.or do you think that TCP/IP connection
should be held open until the message can be scanned for spam and
viruses just so we can give a 550 MESSAGE REJECTED error instead of
silently dropping it?
absolutely. is that actually a problem, today, in 2006?
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DATA
.
.. after content scanning, user1 wants the mail, user2 doesn't.
Now what ?
Mike.
Three choices
Screw user1
Screw user2
Screw sender by dropping user2 from recipient list
Its only on the third choice that you have to decide whether or not to
notify the sender with a bounce.
A patched sendmail can prevent a milter from performing a reject of an
email as requested by a milter, if some of the recipients do not want
the protection offered.
