Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 11.08.2008 12:05 schrieb Ian Eiloart: >> In fact, if you accept the email, then silently discard it, then you >> effectively endorsing the validity of the email. You'll be improving >> the reputation of the original sender in the eyes of the ISP. > > Worse, it can even be a punishable offense. At least here in Germany, > doing so for a third party's mail (which according to most lawyers > also covers a company doing it for mail addressed to its own employees) > constitutes "Nachrichtenunterdrückung" (message suppression), a felony > punishable with up to 5 years in prison. > (Talk about lawmakers' support in the fight against spam ...) > > So dropping mail into the bitbucket is not an alternative. I have to > either reject it or deliver it.
Wow. So... the default, unpatched build of qmail is quite popular in Germany? That was Dans policy when he designed qmail; all mail must be delivered or bounced. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
