Hello,
in DBMail 2.0.0 a call to dbmail-smtp -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
results in a temporary failure (exit code 75) instead of no such user
(exit code 67), which causes the mta (e.g. Postfix) to redeliver over
and over again. I had several thousand mails stuck in the mail queue
due to this behaviour :-(
Is there a reason for dbmail not to return code 67 in this case?
*hopes not* Having this fixed and returning the right data would be
really spiffy, IMHO. -sc
I am a bit relieved that I am not the only one with this problem.
The current behaviour is a real problem, because of two reasons:
a) as Sean explained, the sender of such an email gets no immediate
response, that his mail could not be delivered.
b) I get much spam to randomly generated email addresses at my domain.
These mails were not simply thrown away, as they would have been with a
response of "no such user". They stick in the mail queue and create
*huge* amounts of unnecessary delivery attempts, which severely degrades
perfomance. It rendered our mail server almost unusable.
Imho this should be addressed before 2.0.1.
Best regards,
Michael
