Randy Ramsdell: > We simply alias > > $user $u...@$othermailserver > > The $users we forward to are known by our mail server and no mail will > forward otherwise. I cannot think of a scenario which rejected mail from > $othermailserver would be anything other than UCE in this case. The > fringe issues would be a borked config which reject because of > misconfiguration on their end which would result is lost mail if we drop > all rejects from $othermailserver. > > What scenarios could occur which would make dropping these rejects a bad > idea?
Spamfilters are imperfect and will have false rejects (either that, or they would pass all spam). This means you would be dropping legitimate mail into the bit bucket. A better approach is that the down-stream system not reject mail, instead provide a quarantine service. Wietse