[ On Friday, June 3, 2005 at 15:22:00 (+0100), Mark Smith wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [exim] Reducing load vs seeing all the spam
>
> Because there might be some senders you need to whitelist who would fail the
> RBL checks,
I'm assuming you're mistaken -- there must be a way to whitelist against
RBL checks no matter where in the transaction the check is done.
> and because you should always accept mail to postmaster
> regardless of its origin.
No, it's really not worth it, nor is it necessary. No requirement to
accept mail can ever trump local security policies. The <postmaster>
address at every e-mail domain is only required for legitimate use --
it's not required to accept spam and junk from every random idiot in the
universe.
People who regularly need to contact remote postmasters should realize
by now that they really must have at least one, if not several,
alternate ways to send mail, e.g. from one or all of the many free
web-based mail services widely available on the net these days.
Everyone else should have also learned by now to get support from their
own local postmaster, who will be one of those people in the first
group.
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