Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article <cistron.Pine.GSO.4.61.0604111656450.15259@pants.snark.net>, Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net> wrote:
.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?
absolutely. is that actually a problem, today, in 2006?
RCPT TO: <user1@domain> RCPT TO: <user2@domain> DATA .
.. after content scanning, user1 wants the mail, user2 doesn't. Now what ?
Mike.
Three choices Screw user1 Screw user2 Screw sender by dropping user2 from recipient list Its only on the third choice that you have to decide whether or not to notify the sender with a bounce. A patched sendmail can prevent a milter from performing a reject of an email as requested by a milter, if some of the recipients do not want the protection offered.