Re: fingering e-mail addresses

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From: Lee Maguire
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:00

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Tom Holub <doosh@best.com> wrote:
>Only an insane sysadmin would fail to bounce mail to invalid addresses.

If they're not insane, they haven't been doing the job long enough.

Some sites will accept all "unknown" local parts and give them to
postmaster.  A human might have a good idea of where the mail was
intended, "bounce" it to them and then perhaps alter their system's
aliases to match.  (In some situations simply bouncing a mis-addressed 
mail may be unacceptable.)  For example, the following in exim:

   shaun: :fail: Perhaps you require sean@boguscompany.com ?
   dave:  :fail: Dave's not here, man.
   love:  :fail: Love don't live here anymore.
   spam:  :blackhole:

Although, obviously, the effectiveness of this approach depends on the
number of users that receive mail on the system.

-- 
Lee Maguire <{$news-reply$}@wetware.demon.co.uk>

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From: Lee Maguire <see-sig@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: fingering e-mail addresses
Date: 1999/09/06
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