On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, DOLIST Technical Center wrote:
> > Bonjour Davide, > > Friday, September 27, 2002, 6:19:10 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > can you give me a valid reason to do such a thing ? > > well, this is important for us to follow how much mails are arrived to > final destination with a SMTP ok for our customers, as well as how > much are in retries, or hard bounced. > > When we query this, this is more efficient to, for example, query > final 418 errors than find out for each e-mail how much retries there > is, and as we don't know the number of MX, the count won't be always > the same, so after this, complex computing like date, retries etc > could be solved with a end of job, much more simple to track. if a message bounce with a 4xx SMTP error code, it is always due to the maximum number of delivery attempts. _always_. hard bounce will have a 5xx SMTP error code. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
