Blocking Delivery Status Notifications?

[Peter Peters]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:47:51 +0200, you wrote:

>But if I'd have to choose I would indeed prefer to silently drop all
>multipart/report messages and sacrifice the odd message to a non existent
>address. Replacing it with a warning wouldn't make much sense I guess.

The problem with this is that legitimate e-mail with a typo in the
address never gets to the intended recipient *and* the sender is not
warned about his mistake. He would think the recipient has recieved the
e-mail and he would wonder why he didn't get any answer.

And it is very easy (in outlook express) to keep on sending to the wrong
address. The address is entered in the addressbook and is perhaps the
first address shown when searching for somebody. We have the same
problem. A strange version of my address has somehow appeared in the
central addressbook on our exchange server. I had to make an virtuser
entry on our central mailserver to be able to catch that address (wrong
tld) and reroute it to my mailbox. The exchange administrators weren't
able to remove that address permanently.

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Peter Peters
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Universiteit Twente,   Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
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