Re: Why does my connector send read receipts?

Not to be rude, but your mail "system" should be rejecting receipts - 
stripping them off - and not responding to them when they enter your 
domain. This isn't the purpose of a mail client, or at least, it shouldn't 
be. If Exchange doesn't have this capability, then why have it exposed to 
the Internet in the first place? They should be putting something else in 
front of it that will perform mail security. 

And - dependent upon the version of Exchange they're using - their should 
be an option, and they should be using it. 

Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants
http://www.cbsol.com
952-544-1108 
Blog: http://bingo.cbsol.com

[email protected] wrote on 04/29/2004 03:55:25 AM:

> I have ximian 1.4.5 on Mandrake 9.1 and whichever connector needed to
> connect to MS Exchange. Every time I read an email that asks for read
> receipt, it gets sent - I know because they often don't contain a valid
> return address, when they contain SPAM.
> 
> Apart from the annoyment of this, this is also a serious security issue
> as well as a way for spammers to harvest valid email addresses. What
> leaves me totally confused, to say the least, is that nobody amongst the
> developers seems to be able to bother themselves with the issue.
> 
> I have talked to the people that administrate our Exchange server, and
> they know of no server option that can control this behaviour. I know of
> no option in Evolution that controls this. So, can somebody please
> either tell me:
> 
> 1. Where in Exchange server is there an option for this?
> 2. Where in Evolution is there an option?
> 
> - or if there is no such options, how does one get the developers to
> care?
> 
> /jan
> 
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