on 4/12/2003 10:18 AM, Norman W. Ferguson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 4/12/03 11:04 AM, Kirk McElhearn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> On 4/12/03 16:57, "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
> {snip}
>> Some of them do. But are you saying that Mail's bounce feature is totally
>> useless?
>>
> {snip}
>
> Essentially, yes.
>
> A true bounce occurs nearly immediately after an e-mail arrives at a server,
> when that server parses the address, and 'knows' that there is no such
> account on the server. It then auto-generates the bounce.
But what about all the servers "in between" the originating server and the
destination server?
Any bounce that doesn't happen when the server is still connected *may* not
actually inform the original sender, however people are using bounce scripts
and they are working.
These are basically theoretical arguments whether bounces work or not. In
actuality, they work sometimes, and other times they don't. However, there
are people who say that Bouncer (and Mail's bounce) actually work.
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