Anthony W. Youngman schreef:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David R. Linn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Except, to the best of my knowledge, "bounce" means that *I* send a DSN back to the original sender, and "reject" means that the relay is honour-bound to send a DSN back to the original sender.To rephrase your advice - "Don't bounce. Either bounce or accept and discard".
"reject" and "bounce" are the same thing!
I'm sorry but "bounce" and "reject" are not the same thing. One implies sending a message back to the putative sender; one merely implies telling the incoming SMTP relay that the message has not been (or in some cases, will not be) accepted and makes dealing with the message the problem of the incoming relay.
The only practical difference is who sends the DSN. And as I said, in my case (because "download and drop" is not a practical option) there is no way I can suppress the sending of the DSN.
This is getting *very* off topic, but:
As David R. Linn said, bounce and reject are *not* the same. Rejecting means that the receiving SMTP-server refuses to accept the message at all (return a 550 response), meaning the sending SMTP-server can't deliver the message at all. Bouncing means that the receiving server *does* accept the message, but then sends a message back to the *email address* in the message envelope, which may have nothing to do with the actual sender.
That is simply not a proper way to respond to spam. It used to be, when the internet was in a more innocent era, but those days are no more...
-- Patrick Hubers
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