Bastian Blank wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > What's the best configuration for a web server that does not receive > > mail but needs to send mail? > > Send only does not exist. Every e-mail can produce bounces, which are > sent to the sender of the original e-mail and needs to be handled > somewhere.
Of course any SMTP time rejects are prefectly okay. That's the best and most appropriate time to reject a message. Gone are the old days when sites would routinely relay for another site allowing spammers to fire and forget spam to anyone and dodge the returning bounce message. > If you don't want replies, send with the empty sender (and run into a > complete different set of problems). Yes. It's rather a problem either way. There is really no good best practice to apply here. The problem is one of the classic damned if you do and damned if you don't problems. And yet password resets (and bug notifications) are useful messages to send by email from web sites that don't have any other need for email. Sometimes contining onward being unreasonable is the only reasonable course of action. Bob
