On Wednesday 12 July 2006 06:16, John D. Hardin took the opportunity to write: > Rejecting (bouncing) spam
Isn't there any sort of consensus about the terminology? I like to say
that "reject" means giving a negative (permanent (5xx) or temporary (4xx))
reply to a command, whereas "bounce" means composing and sending
an "undeliverable mail" notification message.
Unfortunately RFC 2821 doesn't define the terms. The word "reject" is
generally used in the "negative reply" sense, but section 2.4 says "Delivery
SMTP systems MAY reject ('bounce') such messages rather than deliver them".
THe word "bounce" is used three times in all. The more formal term (though
it's not listed in the Terminology section is "to send a notification
message", but that is so long...
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