> On 21 Jan 2015, at 13:33, Richard Clayton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For me, as the administrator of an MTA: if my MTA >> cannot return a bounce to a sender then I cannot maintain overall >> reliability of email, in the notification of error conditions. > > as a community we'd much rather than you refused to accept a message > (5xx) rather than accepting it and generating a bounce later !
Of course, if you have an SPF pass, this isn’t an issue. You won’t be creating backscatter. Well, I guess that’s assuming that the domain hasn’t been registered with bad MX records (do people do this on purpose?). You probably shouldn’t trust domains with +all. -- Ian Eiloart Postmaster, University of Sussex +44 (0) 1273 87-3148 -- ## List details at https://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/
