Author: Dave C. Date: To: Phil Pennock CC: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel, exim-users New-Topics: [Exim] once Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim setup done and it works ok, but...
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Phil Pennock wrote:
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>
> Designing a system designed to scale to more than 20 users and making
> end-user competence a pre-requisite is perhaps not a good idea. Scaling
> to more than 100 people and assuming intelligence above chimpanzee level
> is foolhardy. Designing a system which should scale to the size of the
> Internet population and _requiring_ the intelligence of a slug is going
> to cause you serious grief if there's any way that error messages will
> provide a way to contact you.
I mean really, what possible legitimate reason could there be for
someone to send any important mail to mailer-daemon? Anyone with a clue
will send to root@ or postmaster@, error-bounces either wont happen
(envelope sender = <>), or, in the case of broken MTA which send
error-bounces to From: header address, do you really care to get them?
