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Re: [cobalt-developers] Maibox fill up leading to anti-spamlisting
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Maibox fill up leading to anti-spamlisting
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Jul 29 14:54:01 2002
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Sun Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
Herb Rubin wrote:
> I figured out that procmail was telling sendmail (during local deliver)
> about being
> over quota. Then sendmail was performing the bounce back to the sender. The
> trick is to cause procmail to quietly send the new mail message to /dev/null
> when
> the regular mailbox is full.
Why? The right thing to do with undeliverable email is to return it
back to the sender. Why would you want to throw away mail you can't
deliver because the mailbox is full? No one will trust email through
your server if you do that.
Jeff
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