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

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Aug 18 17:39:43 EDT 2005


Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:

> Tempfail the second of A and B at RCPT time...

There are serious practical problems with this approach:

1) If there are 50 instead of 2 RCPTs, the last person waits a looong time
for e-mail.

2) Some mail servers (Exim, I think) use an exponential backoff strategy
for retry times.  This means the last person waits a reeeeaaaallllyyy looooong
time...

Regards,

David.



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