On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:15:57PM +0100, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
|
| > The problem with this approach (and others approaches based on header
| > fields, rather than the envelope) is that it forces the MTA to
| > actually accept the message, before being able to reject it.
|
to be precise, it doesn't require the MTA to accept it. it requires the
MTA to transfer it, which is a bandwidth cost. in theory the MTA can
still reject it at "." time.
practically speaking, i hear there are a number of MTAs that treat all
"." time rejections as tempfail, and will retry.
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