David A. Cafaro said the following on 4/9/04 7:09 PM:
Stopping sending those annoying blocked email messages back to people
who didn't send the original email due to forged from addresses. You
are putting undue burden on everyone by not setting your server up to
drop these things. I personally get REALLY annoyed when I get bounces
from people saying I've sent them a infected file (I run Linux for
email!). He is not the Lazy Sysadmin, he is going the extra step for
his customers to try and stop the deluge hitting them by contacting you.
At the very least you shouldn't be accepting the e-mail then bouncing it.
I'm not sure about exim, but with postfix you can REJECT the e-mail
at SMTP time. This doesn't send any bounce e-mail at all, but instead just
tells the sending party that you refuse to accept the e-mail. Alternatively,
postfix will let you just discard the e-mail, but be warned that
silently discarding the e-mail goes against the SMTP spec.
Cheers,
Tanner
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