[Mimedefang] Mimedefang 2.36 and how to drop a blocked attachment message - action_bounce?

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Mon Sep 29 11:27:01 EDT 2003


--On Monday, September 29, 2003 8:36 AM -0500 Les Mikesell 
<les at futuresource.com> wrote:

> Except for the case of your local mail clients, virtually all others
> will be sent through a relay so the SMTP reject is going to cause
> a bounce message to be sent even though you push the work of doing
> it off to someone else.

But who is doing the relaying? If it's an ISP, then they're complicitly 
feeding viruses to the Internet. If it's an open relay, then bounces will 
signal the presence of those, and present more justification for closing 
them (for those few who think they're a good idea).





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