Lisa Muir <[email protected]> wrote on 2009-Jan-30: > What is the protocol for smtp where there are multiple recipients for > an email, either multiple to, cc or bcc, and one of the recipients is > rejected at the SMTP submission as being an invalid email address. > > Does the email get submitted for everyone else on the distribution > list except that one recipient? > > If the user then re-submits does it get sent to everyone else again > and again until they delete or fix the error in that one email > address?
Courier will simply do whatever the sender tells it to. If your sending software submits 100 addresses, and courier rejects one as invalid, and then the sender submits a message, that message will be sent to the 99 valid recipients. If the sender submits the same message with the same 99 valid and 1 invalid recipients, then courier will dutifully send the message out each time. It's doing what the sender asked it to do - sending a message to 99 recipients. If you don't want the message to go out at all if there is any invalid addresses, then you need to configure your sending software to abort on any recipient errors. Otherwise, if it submits a message to courier, courier will send it. > Shouldn't the protocol > be that the message does not get submitted to any of the recipients > until such time as the message is accepted from the sending MUA at > smtp? I believe that's exactly what happens. It's up to the sender to decide whether to abort sending when a recipient is rejected or not. If the sender aborts, no message is sent. If the sender submits a message, the message is sent. I think this is the way we all want it to work. The sender controls what happens by how it responds to errors. But perhaps I've misunderstood your question. HTH Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
