On Thu 17/Oct/2019 04:35:53 +0200 Michael Rathbun via mailop wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:11:31 +1100, Michelle Sullivan via mailop > <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > >> Worse when they (the receiver) silently discards them... user checks the >> spamfolder and their inbox and the sender thinks it all went through and >> the email is never seen despite people looking for it and wanting it. > > For at least one provider, unfortunately, that is due to the system's > architecture being such that there are situations in which the system's > behaviour is essentially indeterminate, and "completely losing the message > without hope of tracing what happened" is a predictable outcome in some > percentage of cases.
For blatantly viral attachments, silently dropping the message still seems to be the most appropriate action. Is that a best practice? Ale -- _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
