On 10/14/2014 10:15 AM, Chris Bannister <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:05:00AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> To bounce all of those invalid addresses not only would further >>> increase the amount of junk on the internet,
>> That is pure and absolute nonsense. The vast majority of spam comes from >> botnets, and *rejecting* garbage from these results in ZERO additional >> smtp traffic. > Are you confusing drop and reject? Doesn't a reject send a response > back, ie traffic, whereas a drop doesn't? No. An SMTP REJECT does not 'send' any additional traffic. It simply closes the connection with the appropriate 'response code', generally a 55# code. It then falls to the sending server to inform the sender of the 'failure to communicate' - which, if the sender is a botnet, won't happen. Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
