Re: [courier-users] courier mail server - repeated user unknown messages

[Randall S. <co...@ra...>]

Gordon Messmer scribbled something like:

> Randall Shaw wrote:
>>=20
>> Couldn't that be done with the "aliasdir", and setting up a
>> ".courier-default" with a couple empty newlines in it?
>>=20
>> I set something like that for our server, for any unknown user of a
>> hosteddomain, it basically gets throw into the trash without a moments
>> thought =3D)
>>=20
>> Yeah yeah, that=A9=F6s not very nice in the realm of email server etiquette.=
..
>> But gosh durnit I so frellin hate spammers!
>=20
> What makes accepting and discarding messages a better proposition than
> refusing the messages to begin with?

Old habit maybe? Older versions of courier I use to run, I had to do that,
because there was nothing called backscatter handling. Now, I guess its a
moot point, but old habits die hard =3D)

Plus it seems to be a bit less overhead by simply pitching an email, that
dealing with it in a bounce situation, and determining if it should or
should not be bounced in regards to settings of backscatter or not. *shrug*
Maybe Sam knows for sure which is less overhead. He knows stuff.


-Randall Shaw