ReW: Spam and NDR


"Andy David - [MVP]" <adavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:10:02 -0800, Dan
> <Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> > What's the latest feeling on allowing Exchange to send NDR's? Is everyone
> >doing it? I have a situation where I think I may have hit a blacklist
> >because of the amount of NDR's I was sending back to bogus places. What can
> >I do?
> >Also, I have the 'do not accept mail for recipients not in the directory'
> >(don't remember the exact terminology) enabled, can I have it so that NDR's
> >are not sent back to bogus addresses but are sent if the user addy is correct
> >but unavailable for one reason or another?
> >Thanks,
> >Dan
>
>
>
> You should enable it. No need to accept mail for accounts that do not
> exist!
>
> That will prevent much of the chaff. You can then allow NDRs to be
> generated for those other situations such as mailbox over quota etc...

I'm sorry, Andy, but I have to disagree with that statement. I have found it
useful to accept mail for accounts that do not exist, but ONLY because we have
lost very important e-mails because people can't spell.

We had a case where a client of ours was being sued because of a handicapped
path of travel that wasn't built to standard. Because we are the Civil
Engineering company that originally designed the path to meet ADA Standards, the
e-mails were extremely important. One of the brilliant attorneys sending out
e-mails inadvertently misspelled the e-mail address of the contact here in our
company.

Had we had that feature enabled, I (as the postmaster) would not have received
it and been able to forward it on to the intended contact.

Now, I'm not saying that it is for everyone, but to have all the e-mails for
accounts that don't exist forwarded to one person is a small price to pay versus
the price of missing out on something of that importance.

Just something to ponder. Sorry to intrude.

RW


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