On 2022-08-15 10:39:05 -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Rejecting mail (instead of accepting it and dropping it) is useful > > in case of false positives. > > I'm a bit torn on this. > > On the one hand, yes, the sender now knows for sure their message didn't get > through*. > > On the other hand, the sender now calls *their* outgoing mail provider to > complain "You wouldn't let my message through!", and trying to explain to > someone that no, really, we can't do anything about this because it's the > recipient's system that doesn't like you is.... sometimes painfully tedious.
Well, the outgoing mail provider (or IP address supplier) is sometimes the culprit, e.g. by letting spam out. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
