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[Bastien ROUCARIES <address@concealed>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Roger B.A. Klorese <address@concealed> 
wrote:
>  On 8/26/10 8:15 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Roger B.A. Klorese<address@concealed>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  Just checking -- does this properly reject, rather than bounce,
>>> undeliverable messages to the target domains?
>>
>> What do you call reject ?
>>
>
> Rejecting is when, during the original SMTP conversation with the sending
> domain's MTA, you do not accept the mail if the list, -owner address,
> -subscribe address, etc. does not exist.
>
> Bouncing is when you accept the message into your queue, then subsequently
> send a DSN when you try to process it in your queue and can't deliver it.
>
> Rejection is better than bouncing because it is not prone to produce
> backscatter -- where the message itself has a forged sender address, so you
> spam the alleged sender when you send the DSN.
>

Depend of the return status of /usr/lib/sympa/lib/sympa/queue
if exit status is 0 it will reject
if not 0 it will bounce

I have just check it return 0 (but it could be configuration
dependant) when sending to non existant list.

Bastien