Re: [exim] DynaStop - It works for me.

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:40:04PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> My question to you is this. Suppose the email is an important email, and
> it's languishing in a spam folder. How does the sender know that the
> message hasn't arrived? Answer: there's no way to know. Of course, the
> recipient doesn't know either.

the best model is probably to reject at SMTP time and put
it in the spam folder; the key thing is to ensure that
it's in the power of the user to get the email out. of
course lots of people ignore SMTP errors, and lots of
important mail is sent by systems which don't have an
out-of-band system for notifying recipients when their
mail server rejects mail to them, so you have to make the
mail available to the recipient anyway.

of course none of this helps when some third party has
decided that no mail will be accepted from hosts of a
certain character (e.g. ``appears on `black list' X'');
all the user can do is get a real mail system.

> Putting an email in a spam folder only helps when the recipient is
> expecting the email, and that often isn't the case.

well, most users are aware that spam filters have false
positives, and that they should occasionally check their
spam folder for same. whether they do so or not is another
question....

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