Wietse Venema wrote:
Accepting mail for a non-existent user and then dropping the bounce
is the wrong solution for the wrong problem.
I will fight tooth and nail against the idiots that encourage such
preposterous configuration.
I know that :)
I was just saying that there ARE numerous mail servers that are
configured this way - and it is a valid question how to configure a mail
server this way, IMHO.
Also, anybody is free to configure it exactly this way ... even if that
is problematic in times.
Mostly, major companies have such a configuration - i think, they want
to stop tries to figure out the real mail addresses and find real people
this way.
For example:
Trying josef.ackerm...@deutsche-bank.de may be the right mail address -
if my test mail get´s rejected, i know that it is NOT.
If the reject is silent, everything is still open - sometimes a better
solution!
Just some thoughts ...
