Auteur: Adam Funk Date: À: exim-users Sujet: Re: [exim] Is there a way to automatically resend email
throughdifferent gateway?
On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:38, Marc Sherman wrote: > Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> > Il 5 Feb 2006 alle 16:21 Marc Sherman immise in rete
> >
> >> Many servers will simply drop your traffic silently, or quarantine
> >> it.
> >
> > I think this would break the rules ... one is free to not accept a
> > message, but once accepted have to be delivered or bounced.
>
> I'm not saying they _should_ be dropping his traffic; I'm saying they
> _do_. Running a reliable mail server is in many ways a pragmatic task,
> not a legalistic one. Adam and Daevid can rail at the operators of
> those servers all they like about following the rules, but that's not
> going to get their mail delivered. Routing all mail through a
> non-blacklisted smarthost, on the other hand, will.
I take your point, but I do think there is a bit of hypocrisy floating
around here on this issue: people condemn what Daevid and I want as
*wrong* -- even though I genuinely don't think it violates the RFC -- but
condone (at least tacitly) violations on the "receiving end".
