Jerry wrote:
You don't want to bounce the message, yet you are telling the sender
that it was not delivered. That is inconsistent. Why not simply send a
notice to the email originator that the message was quarantined? That
would be consistent and factually correct.
It's not inconsistent at all. That's what you're supposed to do with
mail you know you can't deliver at SMTP-time. The sender's mail server
sees the "550", and reports the non-delivery to him or her.
Accept-and-bounce has been frowned upon for some time; it's called
backscatter and will make you a bad person:
http://www.backscatterer.org/?target=backscatter
Furthermore, almost all virus mail has a forged sender, so this is a
particularly bad place to accept-and-bounce.
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