Matt Kettler wrote:
Jonn R Taylor wrote:
OK, but I thought that there was something that one of the RFC's said
about rejecting mail at the smtp level?
Eh?
Also, it looks like they are rejecting mail, at the smtp level, based
on message body too.
That's fine under the RFCs. In fact, the RFC's explicitly specify that
all mailservers must support rejection at the end of the DATA phase. So,
contrary to being against the RFCs, this behavior is actually specified
by them.
I am just trying to understand why an isp would develop a system like
this. Seems very stupid.
Agreed. I think it's a brain-dead attempt to counter the image and pdf
spams that have been so popular lately.
(You do realize there was a big surge of spam that was encoded as PDF
attachments recently, right?)
No, I did not. I have setup and maintained our company mail server for
the last 10 years. I have always been very carefull about making sure
that we always stay up to date with the current requirements that all
postmasters like to see from a business.
