Re: People forging their From: addresses
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:52:21 +0200
The latter remains to be seen. Originally I used 400,
but I found that it only led to massive and almost
endless retries for obviously bogus domains. Then I
switched to 500. And the loggings show that really
existing domains are hit only very rarely.
Very rarely becomes 'quite a lot' if you have hundreds of thousands
of emails a day. If 20 valid emails get bounced by us a day, that is
unacceptable. We can not put the burden of this on our users, so we
have to bear it ourselves by returning 400. This is partly of course
a difference in the customers we serve :)
The latter is probably the deciding factor in which
approach to choose: an ISP is in quite a different
position than an end site.
Piet