On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Ian Eiloart wrote: > --On 29 June 2010 10:51:00 +0100 David Woodhouse <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Users still won't bother to read them, and will prefer to ask a sysadmin > > who will have read the words on the user's screen to them, before the > > user actually understands.
Some of those users have no interest in hearing the sysadmin read the words to them or having an understanding of what they mean; they are showing them to the sysadmin purely so that he'll do something to make the problem go away. > Well, that will often be the case. I'm just saying that a bounce message > has more chance of conveying useful information if its created by the > receiving server than the sending server. Why? Because the best the > sending server can do is try to interpret the SMTP (enhanced?) error > code, and wrap the SMTP error text. Not to mention that if you issue multi-line rejection messages, you may find that the sender receives back an error report with one of: 1. all of your carefully crafted lines; 2. the first line; 3. the last line; or 4. none of them, and to boot, an incorrect or misleading error message resulting from invalid assumptions by the sending server. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
