Re: qpsmtpd-async authenticated relaying direction request

[Baltasar Cevc]

On May 28, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote:

Seems a little fragile. There aren't many bounces that quote all

headers. You'd be better off just rejecting all bounces in qpsmtpd,
then you only see "legit" bounces where the remote end issued an
immediate 5xx to your Exim's outgoing mail. Of course when I suggest

I'm of the opinion that I've barely ever seen a useful full bounce in
years. So my qpsmtpd runs a no_bounces plugin, which I believe I've
posted here before.

that (here and on other lists) mail admins tend to freak out a bit. But

While I would not freak out, it is surely not RFC conformant. And, even
worse, it is illegal in some legislations (I can tell for Germany):
suppressing mails (thus also failure notices that made sure the sender
knows a mail has not arrive) is punishable under the German Criminal
Code.

However, I think everybody should descide himself/herself.

I notice 'broken' systems that will send bounces instead of rejecting
mail from time to time...
Baltasar

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