On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:25 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Times have changed. Perhaps the best plan now would be *never* to give
> any details in bounce and delay warning messages. What do people think?
> Please post your opinion.
Exim started out 10 years back. At that time people using email were
relatively early adopters (OK, I had been using email for 10 years then,
and administering email systems for 5, but I'm getting ancient). People
could be expected to make a little effort to work out what was wrong.
Nowadays an error message is either sworn at, ignored, or mangled and
then emailed to someone completely unconnected.
I am *still* getting emails to postmaster@??? blaming me for their
mail not getting through due to their ISPs ancient exim system relaying
another MTAs error message back to them - and I thank Philip for
removing the Exim part of "This message was automatically generated by
email software (Exim)" which has prevented a few million other messages
wanting me to deal with someone elses problems.
So I think that we should in general minimise error messages - most are
admittedly generated by ACLs nowadays. Others should be a bare minimum,
for both privacy reasons and redirecting stuff to the only person who
can normally repond.
Nigel.
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