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Re: Solving the Forwarding Problem for good!!!

2004-01-17 11:09:38
On Saturday 17 January 2004 5:56 pm, Mark wrote:
Nope; you can drop the connection, of course, and have the connecting mail
server time out; but then you're probably even worse off, as the connecting
mail server will just keep trying to deliver the message. Other than that,
you will just have to wait the process out, until /^\.$/ (in Perl terms).

Dropping the connection _and_ a one-time blacklisting of the sending IP works, 
as the sender gives up after getting a "550 Blacklisted" the next time it 
connects.

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