Re: [exim] Fake ACCEPT (ahem)

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Author: Dave Evans
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Fake ACCEPT (ahem)
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:52:27AM +0200, Jan-Piet Mens wrote:
> On Thu Aug 23 2007 at 11:47:17 CEST, Dave Evans wrote:
>
> > But why would you want to accept and silently discard mail? If the mail
> > contains a virus, don't you think it's better that the sender is told so?
>
> No! That causes collateral spam! Think faked sender...


My point exactly. Note, I didn't say "tell <$sender_address>", I said "the
sender" - i.e. reject.

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