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

Michal Jankowski Michal.Jankowski at fuw.edu.pl
Thu Aug 18 17:25:04 EDT 2005


Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> writes:

> It might make sense to be philosophical about whether or not
> to do something, but you've already decided that a bounce
> is going to be constructed and at this point the only
> quibbling is about who is going to do the work.

It may be not significant when dealing with legitimate mail (but I
still think the closer to the original sender DSN notifications are
generated the better), but we are dealing with something recognized as
spam here. There is a high probability that the sender's address is
invalid, and sending any mail there will result in another
bounce/non-delivery message/mail stuck in the queue/whatever. That
work should be done by the spammer's server (if any), not the spam
victim's server.

  MJ



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