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Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:13:20 -0400
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article <cistron.Pine.GSO.4.61.0604111656450.15259 () pants snark net>, Matt Ghali <matt () snark net> wrote:.or do you think that TCP/IP connection should be held open until the message can be scanned for spam and viruses just so we can give a 550 MESSAGE REJECTED error instead of silently dropping it?absolutely. is that actually a problem, today, in 2006?RCPT TO: <user1@domain> RCPT TO: <user2@domain> DATA . .. after content scanning, user1 wants the mail, user2 doesn't. Now what ? Mike.
Three choices Screw user1 Screw user2 Screw sender by dropping user2 from recipient listIts only on the third choice that you have to decide whether or not to notify the sender with a bounce.
A patched sendmail can prevent a milter from performing a reject of an email as requested by a milter, if some of the recipients do not want the protection offered.
Current thread:
- Re: well-known NTP? (Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism), (continued)
- Re: well-known NTP? (Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism) Stephane Bortzmeyer (Apr 12)
- Re: well-known NTP? (Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism) Peter Dambier (Apr 12)
- Re: well-known NTP? (Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism) Peter Dambier (Apr 12)
- Re: well-known NTP? (Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism) Peter Dambier (Apr 12)
- Re: well-known NTP? (Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism) Tony Finch (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Martin Hannigan (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Edward B. DREGER (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Joe Maimon (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Matt Ghali (Apr 13)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Peter Corlett (Apr 13)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Chris Kuethe (Apr 13)