[Mimedefang] Reject vs. bounce

[Ole Craig]

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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