Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?
On 10/15/2014 4:44 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:15:24 -0400
> Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> It is either OK to delete an email or it is not. You can't have it
>> both ways.
>
> It is *not* OK to silently delete an already accepted email, it does
> indeed break SMTP as a reliable protocol ('reliable' as in: 'either we
> deliver it or we tell you we didn't').
>
> However, if the Reply-To: is forged, i.e. if it is spam, the
> alternative is considerably less OK. Bouncing a spam message simply
> delivers *the* *entire* *message* to an innocent third party, having
> been laundered through your (presumably legitimate and respectable) mail
> server.
>
> So it isn't OK, but there's no alternative to doing it. That's how you
> have it both ways.
>
OK, then the same question as I had for Tanstaafl - exactly WHICH RFC is
it in violation of?
Tanstaafl couldn't answer it, and you can't either, because it's not
violating any.
So, it's only your opinion.
Jerry
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