Author: Chris Edwards Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Send direct, but use ISP relay if any error occurs
| > As discussed yesterday, the fundamental problem is many sites | > will accept your mail (2XX) and then deliver it into a spam
| > folder, which the user may or may not read in a timely manner,
| > or indeed, at all. You have no way of knowing if this has
| > happened.
|
| These people are breaking the rules, and eventually all of their
| mail will end up in the trash
I agree - I generally prefer rejecting over spam-foldering.
However, many other sites think otherwise, and their securiy policy
overrides "rules".
| bandwidth: once out from dynamic IP, once in to server, and once
| out from server. Unlike yours, our packets have to walk through
| the valley of the shadow of monopoly telecoms.
Well, it's not all *that* long since we paid for transatlantic bandwidth
at 2 pence per megabyte ;-))