Author: Ian Eiloart Date: To: Jeremy Harris, exim-users @ exim. org CC: Subject: Re: [exim] Re: bounce messages and their potential misuse
--On 31 March 2006 10:32:24 +0100 Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> wrote:
>
> With auth, yes, accept-then-bounce is permissable (but still
> suboptimal, I think. I prefer, as a user, an instant error
> to my mistyping a destination address. As a networking engineer
> I prefer the fewer number of connections).
Well, that would be nice if mail clients handled rejection properly.
Unfortunately many don't. Some, for example, don't show the MTA's error
string.