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.

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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex