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Re: Please stop publishing -all it is NOT time yet

2004-06-14 02:12:30
David Woodhouse wrote:

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 09:22 +0200, Teddy wrote:

I have published all my domains and my clients domains with -all and I won't change that because I know that I (and my clients) only send e-mail from the mailserver and not from anywhere else. So I do not understand why I should publish ?all or ~all. I also don't want to change all the domains at the "flag day".

So either you don't understand fully, or you're happy with the fact that
when your clients send email to another address outside your control,
and that email gets forwarded on to its final destination without SRS,
you are trying to cause that valid mail to be lost.

> Which of those two is it? Are your clients happy with your decision?

I know the forwarding problem. If I publish a ?all or ~all the the final receipents does not reject if it comes from a forwarder. But then a spammer can also send his junk with my (or my clients) address and I (or my clients) have to do Joe-Jobs. About 50% of my clients had to do Joe-Jobs in the last year (about 10'000 bounce messages per hour). But noone of my clients ever told me about forwarding problems with communication partners neither I ever had a problem with that.

So the sorting out of the regular mails from the unwanted bounce messages took days or weaks of handwork, which is very expensive. But for most of my clients forwarding is only a hypotetical problem which the never have seen.

Teddy

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