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Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken



On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:43:29PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
>   However, a quick test shows that this is not the case (as Postfix
>  appears to reject the SMTP RCPT command for non-existent accounts),
>  so I fail to see how it is relevant.

Sometimes, there is no choice.  That could be the case if, for instance, you
are backup MX for a server that is down.  You have accepted the message from
the original sender already -- possibly hours ago.  The primary server comes
back up and rejects the message.  You have no choice but to generate a
bounce mail to the original sender.

This behavior is not limited to Postfix.  Perhaps you would like to file a
grave bug against the SMTP virtual package?



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