Re: stupid SMTP rejection of spammers

Patrik Fältström <paf(_at_)Cisco(_dot_)COM> writes:

> (2) Don't say ok to a recipient address if you are not 100% sure you can
> do local delivery.
This is not best current practice in many situations, the most obvious
being relays, gateways, and backup MX hosts.  This argument came up on
DRUMS too; hopefully it won't be necessary to rehash it again.  There is
no consensus in favor of this position.

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