If the legitimate sender (even ones not on any whitelists) wont receive a notification of a message that didn't go through due to unknown recipient, recipient over quota, and similar mechanisms ... then I wouldn't touch your service with a 10' pole.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:59, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rick Macdougall wrote: >> >> Marc Perkel wrote: >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Thanks Aaron, that is a good point. But I'm running Exim and I think I >>> can code it so that it will not generate backscatter. I'll have to design >>> that in up front. >>> >>> >> >> Interesting, how would you do that without dropping email (which is BAD). >> >> Rick >> > If the recipient is bad then no one would have got the email anyway. But > there wouldn't a a notification to the sender. I suppose I could make it > smarter so that if the message is blessed in one of my many white lists then > I would do a bounce message, otherwise not. > > OTOH, if someone is rarely down then the backscatter would probably be > minimal. This will probably be something to experiment with. >
