Lisa Muir <34.24...@gmail.com> wrote on 2009-Jan-30: > its simply illogical to reject a > message during a submit to an MTA and then have the MTA deliver it > anyway for some subset of the original distribution list.
The MTA doesn't return an error for the *message* submission, just for the recipient address submission. They are different parts of the SMTP transaction. A failure after a RCPT TO command (of which you can have as many as you like) is not the same as a failure during the (one and only) DATA command. If MTAs refused to accept messages with any bad recipients, then tons of automated mail systems wouldn't work. I run Drupal sites, for instance. Users enter their own email addresses where they want to get notifications. Lots of times they enter their addresses wrong. :-) All the daily notifications, all the site-wide messages, etc. would stop working if courier rejected messages because any user entered a bad address. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
