Hallo Bruce, * Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070408 10:28]: > The systems is supposed to just give a temporary failure. Standard MTAs > are resigned to retry temporary failures.
A mailer is not required to retry after a temporary failure, the standards just say it "should". > Many times spammers use cut > down mailers and don't retry. Many spammers do just send their crap at least twice, without even considering the server's reply. That's a direct result of people using greylisting. > That's the theory any way. The retry > should be transparent to the user. It's still abusing a feature for the wrong purpose and it's also putting load on other people's systems (queue management) for solving a local problem (spam sent to your own host). Regards, Felix -- Felix M. Palmen (Zirias) \ -PGP- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /"\ ASCII Ribbon web: http://zirias.ath.cx/ \ http://zirias.ath.cx/pub.txt \ / Campaign my open source projects: \ FP ED9B 62D0 BE39 32F9 2488 X Against HTML In http://zirias.ath.cx/?pg=pro \ 5D0C 8177 9D80 5ECF F683 / \ Mail And News
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