>>if a MTA accepts a message for delivery, it must either deliver or bounce.. While this was a nice idea at one time, it really isn't desirable any more.
Why? SPAM. I get thousands of emails that I accept but are then rejected by my spam filtering. You don't want me sending all those bounce messages to your users (whose email address was forged in the email). I would assume that hotmail (and the others) have user options that say 'delete spam', so they don't have to look at it in their spam folder. This could the reason that it goes into hotmail, and the user never sees it. Some filtering is done when the email arrives, but a lot of time more filtering is done later. I run a mail server from my home, with static ip's and rdns. But almost all mail I send to a yahoo account will go into the users spam folder until they say allow it. Doesn't matter what is in the email, if it was sent to one person or to several. I would love to receive a bounce for messages I actually sent, but I can not handle getting the bounces from every message that says it came from me. Phillip From: Francesco Vertova Sent: Fri 3/21/2008 10:41 AM To: xmail@xmailserver.org Subject: [xmail] Re: hotmail delivery problems At 12.47 21/03/08, David Lord wrote: >On 21 Mar 2008, at 1:56, max toro q wrote: > > I installed Xmail on win2k, and I have delivery problems to hotmail. > > Some messages get delivered, some simply get lost. The log shows no > > sign of problem. > >Yes but not very often. Mails are accepted but never delivered. Not sure we're talking about the same thing, anyway from time to time my users complain that mails for hotmail accounts "are not delivered", meaning that the receiver did not receive them and the sender was not notified of any error. Every time I have investigated I found that hotmail did accept the message for delivery: smail logs say that. For me, this means that XMail did its job and the problem (if any: you know, 90% of a computer's problems lie between the keyboard and the chair ...) is with hotmail: if a MTA accepts a message for delivery, it must either deliver or bounce. Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
