OT: Sendmail REJECT or DISCARD preference

[Matt Kettler]

Peter Farrow wrote:

> Well, actually my practical experience says exactly the opposite, I have 
> quite an extensive evolved access list on my sendmail MTA with over 1000 
> discards in it.  Once this was implemented it greatly reduced to cr*p 
> that was ending up in the postmaster addresses.  

as compared to REJECT?

Clearly there's something wrong with your MTA if REJECT is causing stuff to end 
up in your postmaster box.

Unless of course you've got a secondary MX which lacks the same REJECT clause... 
However, that's just a mistake on the part of configuring your secondaries.