Thus spake Sam Varshavchik on Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:40:02PM CST
> Dave Platt writes:
> 
> >Unless I'm missing something, a 45x temporary-error reply at the
> >completion of the DATA phase is both reasonable and acceptable under
> >RFC 2821.  If that is indeed the case, then I would appeal to Sam
> >to roll a change into the next version of Courier to actually permit
> >smtpfilter scripts to echo back a 45x error code, just as the
> >rcptfilter scripts can already do.
> 
> And one of the two recipients of the same message will now be able to 
> prevent the other guy from getting his mail.

This is only true if per-recipient content filtering is in place, since the
SMTP dialog can only return _one_ response after the DATA phase of an SMTP
session.  A 45x error makes sense after the DATA phase for a local condition
such as drive full, as noted, but no error, neither a 4xx or a 5xx, can be
returned after the DATA phase based on any per-recipient condition.  This is
why courier emits its (rather obscure) errors about recipients whitelisted
or not whitelisted after the MAIL TO phase.  I've had to explain this whole
issue a number of times to my customers, who are allowed to turn their
content filtering on or off on a per-mailbox basis.

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