On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net> wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Simon Lyall wrote:
Everyone here runs spam filters. Many times a day you tell a remote MTA you've accepted their email but you delete it instead. Explain the difference?
Hold on there. What you are describing is evil and bad, and I certainly hope "everyone" does not do that.
When I do not wish to accept a message, I do not accept it, rejecting with an SMTP permanent delivery failure.
Don't mean to go off on a tangent, but accepting and then silently discarding mail is a terrible idea.
matto
Are you suggesting that we configure our e-mail servers to notify people upon automatic deletion of spam? Frequently, spam cannot be properly identified until closure of the SMTP conversation and that final 200 mMESSAGE ACCEPTED...or do you think that TCP/IP connection should be held open until the message can be scanned for spam and viruses just so we can give a 550 MESSAGE REJECTED error instead of silently dropping it? Because most spam originates from a bogus or stolen sender address, notification creates an even bigger problem. What's next: asking for permission to hang up on telemarketers? matthew black network services california state university, long beach