On (2003/09/25 13:46), Johnson, Michael [IT] wrote:
> When a message this a deny by an rbl I would like a nice message to
> be displayed. I did this via the message = " my really long nice message to
> the user"... I have two issues though.
> 1. I would like not to send a bounce if possible but ranter exim spawn an
> email somehow including my message as the body.. .
This practice is something a lot of people on this list spend
considerable time complaining about. Many folks feel that rejecting at
SMTP time is the right thing to do.
Why? Mostly because A lot of spam delivery software just kills a
message (or retries and then kills) if it isn't accepted. In these
cases, your MTA won't contribute to the number of bounces sent to the
forged sender address.
Ciao,
Sheldon.