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On Friday 20 February 2004 12.37, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 08:36:08AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von
Bidder wrote:
> > I guess the document was written years ago, when postfix did indeed lack
> > *some* of the features people did expect (one of them being the ability
> > to reject mail instead of bounce it ;-)
>
> actually, it is qmail and not postfix that can't 5xx reject mail. qmail
> has to accept and bounce it. postfix has always been able to reject
> unwanted mail during the SMTP session (although the relay_recipient_maps
> option is a relatively recent addition for rejecting unknown relay
> recipient addresses).
Hmm. Weren't there some early postifx 1.x releases who did by default bounce
on unknown users? Or was it something different? I seem to dimly remember
some discussions about the possibility to bounce directly in the SMTP dialog
instead of bouncing under some circumstances.
Anyway, the issue is of purely historic interest - today's postfix does of
course reject mail quite early in most, if not all, cases where this is
possible.
cheers
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