Re: best practices for fighting spam with Debian?
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 07:51:45AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
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> - does the sender know their mail was not delivered and do they get a
> reasonable explanation? I've heard there are spam filters who give a
> "user doesn't exist" error which is somewhat disrespectful to genuine
> senders. [...]
I wish this were so. The really Big Ones (have seen that with
outlook.com, possibly with gmail.com), either just drop silently
the mail (!) or deliver it to the end user's spam box (which
combined with the (reasonable!) recommendation to not click
on dubious mail amounts to the same).
Thus mail gets not delivered *without any notification to the
sender*.
This has the potential to kill mail (which for the Big Ones might
be a Good Thing: mail is too decentral and too hard to monetarize).
regards
- -- t
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