Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?
On 10/14/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 10/14/2014 10:52 AM, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the
>>> entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage.
>
>> Rejection can happen after the DATA phase as well. It's better if spam can be
>> identified and rejected before this phase, for the reasons you have identified;
>> but it isn't always possible.
>
> Well... a message can be rejected up to the END of the data phase - but,
> yes, if you have a pre-queue content filer, you can certainly end up
> rejecting something after receiving 99% of the data.
>
> However, once a message has been accepted - ie, *after* the DATA phase
> is complete, it should never be bounced, it should be delivered - or,
> worse, quarantined, or worst case, deleted (ie, itf it is later found to
> contain a malicious payload).
>
> But I was speaking mainly toward the botnet junk that postscreen is so
> good at rejecting now, and that is the vast majority...
>
>
And that is exactly what I do - I delete the email.
Jerry
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