On Sun, Feb 01, 2004, Theo Julienne wrote: > A much nicer way is to reject the emails at SMTP time ( at response to > DATA ) - unfortunatly this requires patches with most MTAs, but it > leaves the "bounce" up to the mail server/client that sent it.
I don't like this solution too much in general -- there seems to be a common misconception that this means "no bounce messages will be generated". This is true unless there was an intermediate relay, in which case the intermediate generates a bounce. I run secondary mail servers for a bunch of people, so my queue is constantly full of bounces since both spam and viruses seem to send to the secondaries as a matter of course now :( By the time the primary has rejected the mail at the SMTP level, the secondary has disconnected from the sender, so it has to send a bounce message. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
