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Re: [Asrg] Re: per recipient status



On 2007-01-25 16:02:35 +0100, Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
> David Nicol wrote:
> > On 1/24/07, Claus Assmann <ca+asrg at esmtp.org> wrote:
> >> On one of my machines more than 95 per cent of the incoming mails
> >> is to unknown recipients. I do not want to receive the message data
> >> in that case at all.
> > 
> > good point.  thanks.  that would have to be fixed first of course;
> > for instance DATAFIRST connections only allowed from reputable
> > peers.
> 
> I agree with Claus. Me too, I don't want to receive messages for non
> existent recipients.
> 
> A way to fix this may be a negotiation between the server and the
> client, probably it's the server who shall ask for DATAFIRST.

It has to do that anyway in the EHLO reponse. It could advertise
DATAFIRST to "reputable" peers only. But I don't think that helps much,
because you specifically want it for the less reputable hosts: Where
some messages will be accepted by some users but rejected by others.

	hp

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