[Mailman-Developers] ANNOUNCE: GNU Mailman 3.0a1 (Leave ThatThing Alone)

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 12 April 2008 12:06:06 -0700 Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

>
> I don't think that's what Ian is saying. The key word is 'selectively'.
> I.e. the SMTP server can still reject the incoming message, but once
> it has seen the DATA, it can only reject the entire message; it can't
> reject a subset of RCPTs.

Yes, that much is true in theory. In practice, it's even worse than that. 
Exim really has accepted the email before it attempts delivery. That's 
going to be true for any MTA that has a queueing mechanism (qmail, for 
example), and perhaps others, too.


-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
x3148