On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:16:25PM +0100, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote:
>> How was end-to-end DSN potentially (more) useful for you? In most cases
>> once mail is accepted by an MX host, the next few delivery steps are
>> reliable. If the mail does not then bounce, it is either delivered or
>> quarantined. Sites that quarantine mail will not explicitly want to
>> expose this behaviour to senders. Some may unwittingly expose the
>> message destination to senders, but you should not rely on this...
>
> The only problem we are trying to "solve" are external sites which accept
> the mail but don't deliver it to the user mailbox.
Indeed you can't reasonably expect this level of "transparency". I
still think DSN is useful (as described), but one needs to adjust one's
expectations to meet reality.
--
Viktor.
