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

Wesley Peters wpeters at stbernard.com
Tue Sep 6 20:30:07 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 07:54 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Michal Jankowski wrote:
> 
> > I have received a suggestion to stream by recipient.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Can you suggest a viable alternative?  (Other than re-writing SMTP, of course.)

Tempfail all the recipients who use different rules than the first?

Sorry this reply is coming so late, I'm playing catchup from several
weeks of vacation and working on other tasks.


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         "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                             Software Engineer
wpeters at stbernard.com                               St. Bernard Software




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