Re: NEW Email address

In article <0QoglGQgCSyE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Kilgallen@xxxxxxxxxxx (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
In article <ehqrdn$mp8$1@xxxxxxxxx>, helbig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:
In article <1161867279.742731.173510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
etmsreec@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I thought that non-deliverable mail would either get sent to postmaster
(whoever that was defined to)

Should be. However, the postmaster then has to separate the wheat from
the chaff there.

or would be bounced back with the SMTP
spam management?

Yes. Two problems here. One is that so many undeliverable messages are
bouncing that YOUR ISP thinks that YOU are spamming, since his SMTP
relay server is getting so many emails from you. The other is that the
From: addresses are probably dummy addresses, so the mail then bounces
back to your postmaster.

I presume that "bounce" did not mean "send a newmail" as nobody
clueful enough to use VMS should ever originate a newmail for
that purpose.

The proper technique is to issue a Reject during the SMTP dialog.
That

1. Goes back to the folks who actually sent it to you
2. Cannot be mistaken for spam as it is not incoming email


IN this day and age, the safest thing to do is just drop it on the floor
and hope nobody trips over it. As was pointed out by someone else, it
is relatively trivial today to try thousands of addresses looking for
valid ones. Hiding valid users from the bad guys is why options like
VRFY are never left on any more. You can argue all you want about what
the RFC's require, what is necessary in reality is often different.

bill

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