Dropping isn't good or bad, however if you're not careful it could come around and bite you on the back side.
I notify the 'recipient' in the event the email in question was expected (part of a project, family / business correspondence etc). Otherwise they could be wondering where their email is, and possibly look at it as a problem with their hosted service, which could affect your bottom line. I know if I was hosted, and the host was making decisions for me regarding how certain mail was handled I'd be looking for a new host. Just my 2 cents KenC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Maul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Postmaster bounces and such. > > When I say bounce I mean reject. We try not to accept them. But > > sometimes we end up accepting them and they will "bounce" back. If we > > warn sender we will often be sending messages to people who have been > > spoofed (it will always go to the sender's email address). If we warn > > recipient then they will flood us asking for information about email > > that has been sent to them. > > > > Rejection is fairly popular, but it is a game of hot potato. Someone's > > smtp server has the message and will need to deal with it. It is bad > > practice to drop messages in the round file and not tell anyone about > > it. > > > > If the message is created by a virus and spreading a virus, who would you > like to tell about it? I dont see why simply dropping it is bad in any > way. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Clamav-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
