Re: [ietf-smtp] DSNs

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 28 April 2020 03:12 UTC

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In article <cone.1588025328.577835.59133.1004@monster.email-scan.com>,
Sam Varshavchik  <mrsam@courier-mta.com> wrote:
>I do agree that I don't /quite/ see the value-added to the recipient of  
>implementing success DSNs. Or any DSNs, for that matter. If the receiving  
>mail server does not want the email it should reject it instead of accepting  
>it and generate a failure DSN.

In general I agree but there are still situations where an MTA (mine
for example) accepts a message intending to forward it somewhere else
and then the forward fails.  Either send a DSN or drop it on the floor
at that point.

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