On 22/12/11 04:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/20/2011 9:19 PM, Peter wrote: > >> In the case of SPAM the best solution is to deliver the email to >> the user's SPAM folder > > You must have an unlimited SAN hardware budget for your 1,000,000 > mailbox site, if you practice what you preach above.
No, of course not, but I know how to deal with disk space limitations. > Potential FPs > should be routed to a "spam" folder, if you like. Everything else > should be rejected Yes. > or discarded. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to figure out why your emails are not going through to your customers than when they are accepted for delivery and *not* delivered. I have very little patience for anyone who insists on doing this. > The world is shades of grey Peter, not black and white. SMTP RFCs even > have grey areas Peter. I believe they are worded as "may" instead of > "should". Yes, and the world is full of email admins who don't know what they're doing, what was your point again? Peter