Hi, Ian On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:52:19 +0000 in message number <72fd62daa86fc681f0fec...@lewes.staff.uscs.susx.ac.uk>, received here on 16/03/2011 13:17:44, Ian Eiloart <i...@sussex.ac.uk> said:
> > > --On 14 March 2011 12:27:37 +0100 Bill Hayles <bill...@craybox.com> wrote: > > > Hi, Steffen > > > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:08:45 +0100 in message number > > <00af01cbdcea$5175be40$f4613ac0$@steffen-heil.de>, received here on > > 08/03/2011 10:56:38, "Steffen Heil" <li...@steffen-heil.de> said: > > > >> Most recipients will drop mails that are FOR > >> and FROM them... This is a classical spam approach. > > Ideally, they'd reject them at SMTP time. Dropping mail is not ever a good > idea. > > And you should only reject such messages when the sender isn't > authenticated. I sometimes email myself, as a way of putting a reminder to > do something into my mailbox. > I run a small server for 20 or so people; we have a mailing list to discuss what the server should and shouldn't do (and many other things). Most users want such filtering implemented. I take your point about your reminders; I sometimes send from one of my e-mail addresses to another. -- This is Spain. We do things differently here! Bill Hayles bill...@billnot.com -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
