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"Almost every spamfilter in the world will accept your e-mail and then silently discard it" I don't think that's true. I've been actively running email servers
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
"Almost every spamfilter in the world will accept your e-mail and then silently discard it"
I don't think that's true. I've been actively running email servers for going on ten years now and the vast majority of mail servers do the opposite. They reject at SMTP time. Accepting and then silently discarding email is considered bad practice, and is not as common as SMTP time rejection.
- kbutler 15y agoServer-side host-based filter (e.g., blacklists): reject at SMTP Server-side content-based filter (e.g., spamassassin): usually marks up the email based on rules, and may either reject/discard it, or leave it for the email client Email-client filter (e.g., in thunderbird, outlook extensions, etc.): silently discards