sieve question

@lbutlr kremels at kreme.com
Thu Apr 23 02:14:13 EEST 2020


On 21 Apr 2020, at 11:54, Ralph Seichter <abbot at monksofcool.net> wrote:
> * mj:
> Our autoreply message reads: "Your email has not been read nor
>> forwarded", which is also the case, forcing the sender to take action.
> 
> No, it does not. An auto-reply message, even if it is actually read by
> the sender, can be ignored without penalty. An MTA rejection puts the
> ball into the sender's court because the message has never been accepted
> by the recipient's MX.

Yep, that was the point I was trying to make upthread, but you stated it better.

> By the way, a rejection is "legally safe", while
> your catch-all-and-let-messages-rot approach is not, in case you have
> not considered that.

Good point, I haven’t thought of that. That, alone, is a reason not to do this.

> Of course, you can do as you please, but that does not change the facts
> and mechanics involved.

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