On 2016-02-20 Sebastian Nielsen wrote: > 1: REJECT tells the spammer "Hey, your spam got stuck in the spam > filter. Wanna try again?". Better to DISCARD it so the spammer think > they got the spam through, then they won't switch to a new domain. > > I don't think anyone ever will receive legitimate mail from any of > those spammy TLDs listed in the rules file I gave.
You're sorely mistaken about this. a) Spammers don't care if their crap gets rejected. At all. They will fire at anything that looks even remotely like an e-mail address. Every day I see multiple delivery attempts to mail addresses that have been disabled for years, to addresses with truncated localparts that have never worked in the first place, and even to message IDs. Message IDs! b) Just because spammers are early adopters (not only when it comes to new domains) doesn't mean nobody will ever use those domains for legitimate purposes. For instance, Google's new holding Alfabet uses the domain abc.xyz. Blocking entire TLDs is throwing the baby out with the bath water. c) Discarding mail may subject you to legal repercussions, depending on where you're located and whose mail you're handling. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
