Re: [exim] not generating undeliverable mail messages

Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On 10/01/07, Phill Harvey-Smith <phill@???> wrote:
>> Peter Bowyer wrote:
>>> On 09/01/07, Phill Harvey-Smith <phill@???> wrote:
[snip]
>> However, rejecting however will still send a copy of the email back to
>> the supposed sender, which for the most part will be spam, rather than a
>> genuine email, so the overall effect is that someone still gets spammed.
>
> No, that's not correct. A reject is the correct course of action.
> Genuine MTAs connecting to you will do the 'right thing' with the
> mis-typed recipient. Spam MTAs will simply ignore you.

Right, in that case that will do exactly what I need it to.

> The action to avoid is 'accept-then-bounce' - where you can't make a
> determination at SMTP time, learn later that you don't want the mail,
> and have to decide what to do with it after the fact. Exim's ACLs make
> this easy to avoid.

Yeah that makes sense.

Thanks for all who replied to this and for the sugestions they have been
most helpfull.

Cheers.

Phill.

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