[105839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REJECT-ON-SMTP-DATA (Re: Mail Server best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Shore)
Sat Jul 5 02:30:15 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:28:57 -0500
From: Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
To: Skywing <Skywing@valhallalegends.com>
In-Reply-To: <982D8D05B6407A49AD506E6C3AC8E7D66147930B21@caralain.haven.nynaeve.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>, Phil Vandry <vandry@TZoNE.ORG>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I'd have to think of this one. I'm not sure what CanIt would do in such
a case. A NDR may be the only way in that scenario. I'll sleep on it.
Justin
Skywing wrote:
> I think the problem that was being raised here was that past the DATA phase, if one recipient is going to receive the message and another is going to reject it, you have lost the ability to communicate this back to the sender (at least without an NDR). Thus the problem of mails disappearing into spam folder black holes is back in the multirecipient case when one is dealing with DATA and recipients have differing spam policies.
>
> - S
