On 10/15/2014 3:13 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: >> 1. email to invalid recipients should be rejected at the RCPT-TO stage,
> Easier said then done - at least when a server does relaying, but > clearly ideal when possible. No, it is 100% easily done. For servers under your control, you just do it. If you don't know how and are unwilling or unable to learn how, then you have no business running a mail server. For servers not under your direct control, but for whom your server is the official relay for final delivery (which means you need the current list o valid recipients), you either require them to allow you to perform recipient verification, or to provide you with a constantly up to date list of valid recpients, or you don't act as their relay. <snip> > Generally agree with you in principle. And that's certainly the > standards-compliant policy. > > In practice.... I support a few dozen mailing lists - operational > necessity dictates dropping a lot of stuff silently. Lists are different, and definitely fall into the category of 'best effort, but no promises'... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/543f9df8.3080...@libertytrek.org
