>>>>> "R" == R G Salisbury <R.G.Salisbury> writes:

R> Some ISP's (exetel ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is one, that do
R> not bounce notices when you send to an invalid email address).

R> Some ISP's do bounce a message , so you know the status , so you
R> know it is futile to try again to the same address.

The best thing to do is to refuse to accept a  message for an invalid
user at SMTP conversation time.  That way the sending MX gets to
notice the problem, and generate a bounce iff appropriate.


As a general rule bounces are evil.  I'm planning to give a talk at
SLUG on this next month, if the committee agree....
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