Automatically moving marked mails?

Greg A. Woods woods-cyrus at weird.com
Thu Jul 9 11:31:20 EDT 2009


At Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:39:54 +0100, Ian Eiloart <iane at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
Subject: Re: Automatically moving marked mails?
> 
> Except that the sieve server ought to be on the border MTA, so that the 
> user can tell the server to reject the message at SMTP time.

Except that's not what Sieve is for.

Sieve should _NEVER_ be used to reject or bounce e-mail.  It becomes a
DoS reflector when so configured.

(even use of the vacation feature is questionable, especially since it's
not usually configured in the proper way)

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