Hi.

Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2006 11:56 schrieb sergio:
> > So what do you want?
> > - The error _message_ should be any other ("550 any error") so that the
> > sender does not know which error occured
> > - The error shall be temporary ("450 user unknown") so that delivery is
> >   retried later
> > - The server should accept the message and do anything with it
> [...]
> I want, if it's possible, that the server does't accept a message, but
> don't send any error messages. :)

Eh?!
You know that the first digit of the reply is an elementary part of the SMTP 
protocol? If your server does not reply "550" or any other number, the other 
party does not know that an error occured and will wait fo a reply. If 
courier would just drop the connection, this would be "any" connection issue 
and the other party will retry later.

This is a very bad idea because non-spam-messages that are misspelled will be 
held in the other party's queue for a number of days and the sender will 
never ever get any reasonable message but only a "giving up" some days later.

If you do that (must be done in the sourcecode), you'll break some rules of 
communication in the internet. Not good...

If you hack courier to just reply "550" without further information, then 
everything works ok, but senders to missspelled addresses don't get helpful 
information about their mistake.

cu, Bernd

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