[Info-vax] What is the correct way to contact VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/25/2019 1:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-11-25, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> Probably.  Be happy they didn't drop the SMTP connection, preventing the
>> email from being delivered at all.
> 
> No, dropping the connection with a reject status is _exactly_ what
> should have happened, especially if it was a blacklisting issue,
> so that Mark would have been told immediately his email had not been
> delivered instead of him having to wonder if anyone at VSI was ever
> going to get back to him.

30 years ago email may have been directly from sender to
recipient, which mean that SMTP reject works.

But today email will often go through many SMTP servers
and if the fifth out of eight has a spam filter that
doesn't like the email then sender would not see
the reject.

Arne