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Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'
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chad |
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Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' |
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Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:50:41 -0700 |
On Jun 30, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> The main reason for the change is that using a misconfigured MTA leads
> to silently dropped mail which is *really bad*.
>
> Why doesn't it deliver a bounce message?
How would it do that? It doesn't know about the user's (actual) external
mail service, and the local system isn't configured to accept mail.
Back when I had reason to look at such systems regularly, it was not
unusual to find hundreds of such bounces in root's mbox.
*Chad
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', (continued)
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Tim Cross, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Glenn Morris, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Glenn Morris, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Chong Yidong, 2011/06/28
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/29
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/30
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function',
chad <=
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/30
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Jason Rumney, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Julien Danjou, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Chong Yidong, 2011/06/27
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/28
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/06/27