Randy Ramsdell:
> We simply alias
> 
> $user  $u...@$othermailserver
> 
> The $users we forward to are known by our mail server and no mail will 
> forward otherwise. I cannot think of a scenario which rejected mail from 
> $othermailserver would be anything other than UCE in this case. The 
> fringe issues would be a borked config which reject because of 
> misconfiguration on their end which would result is lost mail if we drop 
> all rejects from $othermailserver.
> 
> What scenarios could occur which would make dropping these rejects a bad 
> idea?

Spamfilters are imperfect and will have false rejects (either that,
or they would pass all spam).

This means you would be dropping legitimate mail into the bit bucket.

A better approach is that the down-stream system not reject mail,
instead provide a quarantine service.

        Wietse

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