At 14:51 2/3/2004, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > Davide, what do you think about that ? > >Honestly, I do not like it becuase I think it does not buy enough to us >to balance the intrisic "crappyness" of running external commands at SMTP >level. We do have filters, and IMO this should be enough. Repeat me again >what this does buy to us ...
The only benefit I can see is the ability to reject in the protocol session rather than accept and bounce. With spam (and especially with false virus reports) coming in as bounces nowadays, a lot of sysadmins feel that bouncing mail is a bad thing, whereas rejecting mail during the protocol session is better - because it gets the error back to the actual sender (or as close as possible in terms of proxy spam and virus engines), rather than to the (possibly) forged envelope sender. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
