Matthew Black wrote:
there's no bandwidth savings from silently dropping the message versus providing a 550 rejection. In the best of all worlds, it would be nice to give feedback. No system is perfect and a false-positive rate of less than one in a million "220" accepted messages seems pretty small.
I thought I had already participated in beating this dead horse sufficiently in multiple threads in multiple forums on multiple occasions. Maybe I am in your killfile or something. If I post again on this topic, I certainly will deserve to be. Let me ask you this simple question: If you know at close of DATA whether you are going to actually perform final delivery, what does it cost you to follow standards and issue a 550 instead of a 220 and discard it? If you use a 550, a real live person sending an email that somehow gets FP will actually benefit. I am with Suresh on this, just like in the past threads. Search the archive.