[plug] Re: Mail blocking

Anthony Jones ajones at clear.net.nz
Thu Dec 13 23:14:11 WST 2001


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> RFC2821
>
> 6.1 Reliable Delivery and Replies by Email
>
>    When the receiver-SMTP accepts a piece of mail (by sending a "250 OK"
>    message in response to DATA), it is accepting responsibility for
>    delivering or relaying the message.  It must take this responsibility
>    seriously.  It MUST NOT lose the message for frivolous reasons, such
>    as because the host later crashes or because of a predictable
>    resource shortage.
>
>    If there is a delivery failure after acceptance of a message, the
>    receiver-SMTP MUST formulate and mail a notification message.

This is not to say that mail can't be sorted and all junk mail forwarded to 
the appropriate user's mailspool - /dev/null.  Just think of it as routing 
all circulars to the circular file.

Anthony

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