At 01:04 4/01/99 GMT, Paul Gregg wrote:
>Why does anyone need a control file for "badmailto" ? Think about it. You
>don't need one. Why would you want to list valid users email addresses in
>a "badmailto" file? (listing non-valid addresses isn't going to do much,
>except saving qmail from having to generate a no such user bounce).
I personally don't see a need for this for MY system, but I can see where
people might want this. In Australia (and a lot of other countries) most
traffic is charged by per meg. Reducing traffic is a number one concern
(and it is why we like things like qmail that give us such control over
what we can do. Other products like squid are useful too, which help us
save bandwidth).
Rejecting mail as early in the conversation as possible reduces wasted
bandwidth, and in many cases money. (It has happened a few times where
people have been hit with large amounts of data from various domains where
they do NOT pay for data, have been unable to pay for said data, and has
since driven them out of business.)
In many places, this is irrevelant, but in some places, it is very important.
Stuart Young - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(aka Cefiar) - http://amarok.glasswing.com.au/
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