On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, L A Walsh wrote:
Alan Hodgson wrote:
Rejecting the message during receipt causes the sending server to generate
a bounce. If it's at all functional.
That used to happen on poorly implemented mailing lists -- a
delivery error would be bounced back to the email list as a reply that
would get sent out to all the subscribers.
*used* to happen. Such mis-coding should have been fixed a long time ago,
and if there's ML software that still does that it is *not* the receiving
MTA's problem or fault.
On a list with 10,000 subscribers or more with maybe ~1000
messages/day, how many people would be getting back mail-delivery failures
that they could do nothing about.
These days, none should. The ML software should have mechanisms to capture
those delivery problem reports and disable that subscriber, and/or
notify them that list messages are failing (though notifying them isn't
guaranteed if there are problems delivering to them...).
If a given user wants emails to be dropped at the border
I echo the request that you stop misusing the term "dropped" when you
mean "rejected".
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