On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:37:04PM -0800, John W. Baxter said: > On 11/22/06 2:20 AM, "chuckee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I cannot seem to get Exim to send a deny message that is anything longer > > than 80 characters to Outlook or Outlook Express. Deny messages that are > > longer than 80 characters show up in some other email clients, but I want to > > know if there is any way that Outlook users can see anything more than 80 > > characters. > > If the deny message that is sent to an Outlook user is even 1 character > > longer than 80 characters, then Outlook doesn't display any of the message > > at all! > > MUAs differ so much in what they do that it is impractical to emit long > messages to them. Some show the first line of a multi-line message; some > show the last line; some show the whole thing. Because of the first two > possiiblities, there is no right place to put a single copy of the most > important information. > > This is an area in which accepting then bouncing usually works better > (although then you can run into systems which convert any error into > something bland like unknown user). (Please, only accept then bounce when > accepting from MUAs, not other MTAs.) > > Besides that, some go to great lengths to hide the fact that there was an > error (leading to support calls from Outlook Express users about "I can't > get my mail" when the real problem was that OE couldn't send a message, hid > the complaint, and then didn't try to retrieve mail).
The length limit is a big reason that many admins set the MTA to give a very brief message with a URL that goes to a page with more detail. I can confirm that Outlook (2000 specifically) will not return any indication at all to the user that the MTA has rejected a message in some cases. Hopefully MS has addressed this bug in newer versions of outlook (I haven't tested.) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
