Autor: Giuliano Gavazzi Data: A: Vineet Kumar, exim-users Assumpte: [Exim] Re: STOP Auto-Notification NOW!! was: Where is fakereject
in 4.24?
At 23:31 -0700 2003/09/25, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 14:48, George Szekely wrote:
> > > Dear List:
>> >
>> > fakereject was the perfect solution for notifying a sender that .exe
>> > is not acceptable (any file must be zipped).
>> >
> > > It only sent back a custom 550 ... without the attachement. [...] >Does a 5xx really do this? I understand that generating a bounce
>message does, but as I understand it, a 5xx is really the way to go. In [...] >Am I wrong in thinking that a 5xx at smtp time is a good way to go?
>Maybe in the special case of a message which has been verified as a
>virus carrier, a silent accept and drop is good, but I think in the
>general case a 5xx is the right thing. Am I wrong?
the point Greg was making referred to George's original post in which
he said that he *sent* back a "custom 550 ... without the attachement
[sic]". That was either unclear or was not an SMTP response, that is
it was a bounce.
5XX at SMTP is fine.
