Watermarking quirks still in 4.62.8

[Brent Addis]

no, it shouldn't be bounced back.
 
The mta should stop it and report an error to the recieving end, in the same data connection.
 
Bounces are so 90's.

Maybe you have never been jo-jobbed?
 
 

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info on behalf of Randal, Phil
Sent: Tue 7/31/2007 9:19 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: RE: Watermarking quirks still in 4.62.8



Hang on,

A legitimate email is accidentally sent to the wrong email address
because of a simple typo. 

It should be bounced back.

Spam we deal with in other ways.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Scott Silva
> Sent: 30 July 2007 17:32
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: Watermarking quirks still in 4.62.8
>
> Randal, Phil spake the following on 7/30/2007 5:28 AM:
> > A couple of issues with watermarking:
> >
> > 1: Read receipts are getting blocked ("spam(no null-header or sender
> > address)")
> >
> > 2: If I send an email from outside to a non-existent email
> address here,
> > the bounce message from our Exchange server gets blocked. 
> I've worked
> > around this using a ruleset, but shouldn't MailScanner be letting
> > through bounces originating from the internal network (or RFC1918
> > addresses) anyhow?
> >
> You really need to have the first point of contact in your
> network do the
> checks for non-existing users. Otherwise you risk Joe Jobbing
> the rest of the
> world. It is much better to drop the connection with an error
> than to bounce
> something back to a possibly forged address.
>
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