Am 26. August 2022 17:32:05 MESZ schrieb "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>:
>On Fri, 26 Aug 2022, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
>> Hello John,
>>
>> silent dropping of E-Mail is a criminal offense in Germany and should
>be
>> everywhere else.
>
>I would be most interested to see a citation to the law (in German is
>fine) and court cases where spammers have forced mail systems to
>deliver
>their mail. Because I have spent a lot of time looking at laws all
>over
>the world that apply to e-mail, and I don't believe it.
>
>Regards,
>John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
>Dummies",
>Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
>https://jl.ly
Hi,
it is the silent part that is not allowed.
As long as you reject the mail before delivery everything is fine.
If you close the SMTP dialogue with 250 OK you have to deliver the mail to its recipient. And the recipient has to read it, at least in a business setting.
--
Robert
>On Fri, 26 Aug 2022, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
>> Hello John,
>>
>> silent dropping of E-Mail is a criminal offense in Germany and should
>be
>> everywhere else.
>
>I would be most interested to see a citation to the law (in German is
>fine) and court cases where spammers have forced mail systems to
>deliver
>their mail. Because I have spent a lot of time looking at laws all
>over
>the world that apply to e-mail, and I don't believe it.
>
>Regards,
>John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
>Dummies",
>Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
>https://jl.ly
Hi,
it is the silent part that is not allowed.
As long as you reject the mail before delivery everything is fine.
If you close the SMTP dialogue with 250 OK you have to deliver the mail to its recipient. And the recipient has to read it, at least in a business setting.
--
Robert