[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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