[Mimedefang] Spam with more than one recipient - reject or not?

Michal Jankowski Michal.Jankowski at fuw.edu.pl
Thu Aug 18 17:10:36 EDT 2005


"David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> writes:

>> But that's a big no-no. Once you do that, you have effectively
>> accepted the smtp transaction. So you cannot 'bounce' and the only way
>> to notify sender is by mail, which should be avoided at all cost.
>
> Well, in that case, you just discard instead of bounce.

Well, then streaming buys me nothing over my solution #2. 

Still, I like solution #1 better - it copes better with false positives.

> Can you suggest a viable alternative?  (Other than re-writing SMTP, of course.)

Rewrite SMTP. Ooops. 8-)

  MJ



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