> ....who are we to dictate what is and what is not spam to our > users[?]
Yes, short other information about the connection (i.e. the total number of unknown user errors from the sending IP in a given period), it is impossible to determine whether mail to an unknown user is a typo or spam. Critical business mail is certainly sent to typo addresses, so anyone who chooses to accept such mail had better be ready to scan the *entire* drop folder every day, every hour, whatever, unless they truly don't care about their users (as in your customers' case). If you use IMail's 'nobody' alias, you'll get all mail to unknown users redirected to an acount of your choosing (postmaster-unknown@ or what-have-you), and you can summarily dump it from there. Search the archives for more. > Typidcally, there is a catch-all drop for undefined users (554 > bounce). Your terminology is a little strange. 'Catch-all drop' != 'bounce' in mailspeak. A 'maildrop' refers to delivering the mail to a local device, which may or may not then be redirected to NUL; 'drop' is sometimes shorthand for redirection to NUL; or it can refer to 'dropping' the connection, which is also not the same as a bounce. -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
