Author: David Woodhouse Date: To: Mike Richardson CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] local_scan(), content-scanning, multiple recipients and
bounces
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:51, Mike Richardson wrote: > > I agree to a large extent. However, the reason we do spam-blocking at
> > SMTP receive time is to avoid being lumbered with the requirement to
> > bounce the message, given a probably unreachable return address.
>
> Have users blackhole it instead?
That's not acceptable if there exists a possibility of false positives.
Or when you start considering _all_ HTML mail and anything matching
'Subject: Re: ' but having no References: or In-Reply-To: headers as
undesirable.
Sometimes you do want the sender to get a bounce and try again.
