[Mimedefang] Reject vs. bounce
Ole Craig
olc at cs.umass.edu
Sun Jul 18 21:47:20 EDT 2004
On 07/18/04 at 20:54, 'twas brillig and David F. Skoll scrobe:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Jeff Rife wrote:
>
> > In filter_begin, filter, and filter_end, you can't return a "reject", but
> > can only do something like call "action_bounce", which generates a
> > separate e-mail to a possibly forged source address,
>
> That's not true. Read the documentation carefully.
>
> > Is there *any* way to do a true SMTP DSN-based reject based on the DATA
> > portion of the e-mail?
>
> Yes.
>
> With action_bounce.
David -
This particular misconception occurs so often... ever thought
of renaming it action_reject? Same number of letters, even.
Or you could add it as a synonym of sorts:
sub action_reject ($;$$) {
return (action bounce(@_);
}
:-)
Ole
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