> 1. Some mail servers(possibly Lotus Notes and others) don't queue and > retry.
Can you confirm this? It would not surprise me if Lotus Notes is doing something suboptimal, but this particular problem seems unlikely. > If there was version of ALLOWSOFT (opposite of DENYSOFT) that would allow > the mail to get through, yet send a 'courtesy' message back to the sender > and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that informs them politely of the > ignorance of their ways. Something like: > "We have accepted this email even though your mail server does not have a > reverse dns entry, or has messed up on the 450 reply that we recently sent > you. Please fix this problem, as we reserve the right to refuse this mail in > the future, and in the fight against spam, more and more servers will be > refusing your mail in the future" This is called 'DECLINED' and set a flag. I'm working on a framework for qpsmtpd that will let you implement something like this if you want. Personally, I wouldn't recommend doing it, but that's the magic of qpsmtpd, it lets you do whatever you want. > This might be a subtle way to try to change the ways of the > ignorant. It won't work. But if you want to try, go ahead. -R
