At 09:14 24-02-2008, Hector Santos wrote:
Pray tell, are you aware this tells the MTA who are processing the
payload at the SMTP DATA state (not POST SMTP), to issue a 250
positive message accept response code with the true purpose of
silently discarding it?
Yes.
So its more of a
At 09:23 24-02-2008, Hector Santos wrote:
PUBLIC ACCEPT notification
PRIVATE DISCARDING OF MAIL (no notification)
operational behavior?
Yes.
Of course, this would also conflict the current direction of MTA of
doing more dynamic SMTP level analysis of mail by mandating a
DKIM/ASP design of delaying the payload analysis to POST SMTP.
If you mean DKIM/ASP verification, that can be done during the SMTP session.
Regards,
-sm
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