On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 17:52 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:30:34 -0700 > Mark Costlow <che...@swcp.com> replied:
> 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. No that's not right. The difference is that when you're performing the SMTP handshaking, you're talking to the server attempting to deliver it ( not necessarily the originator, but back up the pipeline ). Bouncing the message is returning to the sender as defined in the reply to: header in the message itself... which is just the payload that SMTP has delivered, and does not necessarily have anything to do with the real sender at all. This is actually a good way of ensuring that the spam itself arrives at a larger audience without and extra effort on the spammers part at all. Which is a bad thing (: Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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