Re: [Exim] Anything wrong with rejecting bounces for address…

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Anything wrong with rejecting bounces for addresses which don't send mail?
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:05, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> Does the team think this is a reasonable thing to do? Is the message
> clear enough? Am I missing some unexpected knock-on effect? Sure,
> we'll now also repudiate this address if a callout is attempted for
> it, but as it's only active for receipt of mail (viz. mail which has
> non-null envelope sender), and never actually sends anything, this
> seems to me to be not only harmless, but possibly even beneficial, no?


Seems fine to me - I do similar, for example the list handling router
rejects messages to the list address (not the admin/request etc
addresses) with a null sender.

    Nigel.


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