"Restart Every" option in MailScanner.conf?

Scott Silva ssilva at SGVWATER.COM
Fri Dec 30 23:11:49 GMT 2005


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> 
> Ok, you're right that it SHOULD be the sender's problem, because they
> use an MTA which does not follow the RFC.
> 
> I did not know the text from the RFC till you mentoined it. Now I do, I
> see my advice is wrong, so please ignore it.
> 
> On the other hand, I really do not want to explain to our customers that
> they lost e-mail because of this, although we are not to blame. In their
> vision it would be our fault.
> 
> Greets,
> 
> Joost Waversveld.
> 
IMHO it seems that only spammers seem to use a mailer that won't at
least try several times to send mail, and not consider mail delivered
until actually acnowledged by the receiving MTA.

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