Michael Shields wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Dirk Harms-Merbitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Why don't we all just turn SMTP bounces OFF? Like return-receipts,
>> the information content in bounces is very low.
>
>MTAs must not silently drop mail. Mail is precious.
But a portion of the message could be bounced - enough to contain the
headers and a chunk of a reasonably-sized body. I modified qmail-send to
return only the first 4kB of a message as part of a bounce. That's enough
to catch all the headers and part (often all) of the body.
As far as I can tell, this isn't in violation of any standards. It deviates
from the most common practice, although other sites bounce only parts of the
message, as I am doing. Example 7 in RFC 821 doesn't even give the headers
of a dropped message, it just says "message lost, no such user."
Mark
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