[Dovecot] Dovecot discards mail over quota

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Tue Jan 20 21:29:28 EET 2009


On 1/20/2009, Seth Mattinen (sethm at rollernet.us) wrote:
> 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.

Well, its also about the fact that if one engages in such behavior, one
will quickly find one's mailserver/IP address on numerous blacklists
that are a pain to get off of, IF you can get off of them.

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Best regards,

Charles


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