Some ISP's may set the MTA's to DISCARD the message instead of DENY ing the mails. In th latter case a bounced / error message is generated while the former just discards the messages without any errors etc.
Kapil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tarun Dua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux Users Group Delhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Is anybody using sendmail from their PCs ? > > Ok ... so as Raj says ... blocking mails at recipient level didn't bounce them > > back to where I wanted. And I can make out from what Tarun says ... they went > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > So I guess I'd rather let the Return-Path be set to the defaults and ensure > > bounce back at the cost of band-width. > > (and again try that experiment) > Good sense prevails !! Cheers > If you are blocked from sending mail at MTA level(which is possible if [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't like replying back to your friends service provider's abuse desk > after taking up the issue with you or other types of clueless behavior) > then you(along with a few more @vsnl.com users) will get a bounce back at localhost's(your localhost) > administrative alias(most likely - root) since the return-to address doesn't give the right address. > If if its a delivery failure or a MUA level blocking, then a bounce back > will fail and mail will be sent to the postmaster ( or some other > administrative) alias of the MX mailhost, which is then likely to be > looked at by abuse desk ( Ideally). > Tarun Dua > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
