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> 50000 spam emails daily

If I ever reach this level (still using my 2009 email address), I would just abandon this email address and start with a new one.

> ¹: retry is to refuse emails from unknown servers by default and force them to retry later with 451 error.

Interesting approach. Can you configure a low enough (try-again-in-X-seconds) value? Are you not worried that legitimate emails get dropped here? I imagine transactional emails to not try and resend later?




> If I ever reach this level (still using my 2009 email address), I would just abandon this email address and start with a new one.

Actually I have a business and this email is on all paper documents since nearly 30 years.

> Interesting approach. Can you configure a low enough (try-again-in-X-seconds) value? Are you not worried that legitimate emails get dropped here? I imagine transactional emails to not try and resend later?

It is part of the SMTP standard, all legitimate mail server actually respect that. Also, if there is a false positive, the sender should get a report email back.




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