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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Recording the return path (was Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors)
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:08:14 +0000, [email protected] said: [snip] > > Not quite the only way. If a postprocessing step is needed, > it is trivial for the SMTP server to record any return path info > that it knows in order for the post-processor to be able to > send DSN's as accurately as the SMTP server itself. > > What we have here is yet another failure of imagination. > Has anybody claimed that post-processing within the SMTP-server is better than postprocessing done elsewhere? The issue was in-line-processing vs post-processing. No information you can collect from the SMTP-session or elsewhere can ever compete with the accuracy in notification gained if you reject the message in-line and leave the responsibility for sender-notification with the sending MTA. //per -- Per Heldal [email protected]
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