[Dovecot] Dovecot discards mail over quota
Seth Mattinen
sethm at rollernet.us
Tue Jan 20 21:05:43 EET 2009
It's simply a fact these days that people find backscatter and
misdirected bounces annoying. In many cases they end up at a forged
address that had nothing to do with the original transaction. A well
behaved receiver will make decisions during the SMTP transactions with
appropriate response codes. It should never accept and generate a
message later.
It's not a matter of mincing what an RFC says or does not say, it's
about not being a dick on the internet and respecting your virtual
neighbors. It's like if you were to go through your postal mail box,
separate the junk mail and throw it into your neighbor's yard.
~Seth
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