Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

--On 29 August 2007 16:23:48 -0700 Jeroen van Aart <kroshka@???>
wrote:

> Graeme Fowler wrote:
>> that's fine. If, however, you drop, reject, blackhole or otherwise send
>> AWOL a time-critical [0] message destined to one of your customers and
>> cause, ooh, a business deadline to be missed, then you'd best be
>> prepared for several long talks with your lawyer.
>
> I don't think one can blame an email provider for lost email just as one
> can't blame a telephone provider for dropped or missed calls. Or at
> least it should be that way. Plus I am sure any sane email provider adds
> a nice long disclaimer to be accepted before usage of their service is
> allowed.

I concur. I think the only problem you have to watch out for (and it isn't
relevant to this context) is where you accept a message for delivery, then
neither deliver it, nor send a failure notification to the sender address.

If a (SMTP time) rejected message goes unnoticed by the sender, then it's
some upstream system that's screwed up.

> Regards,
> Jeroen



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