On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Marc Perkel <[email protected]> wrote: > Trying to understand the smtp protocol with multiple recipients. From what I > understand the recipients are specified as follows: > > rcpt to:[email protected] > 250 Accepted > rcpt to:[email protected] > 250 Accepted > rcpt to:[email protected] > 250 Accepted > > Suppose I'm doing forward callouts to verify recipients. And suppose > [email protected] is a bad email address. How should the server respond to > say that there is one bad address but 2 are ok?
[todd@todd-Latitude-D620 ~]$ telnet mail.mrball.net 25 Trying 208.89.139.252... Connected to mail.mrball.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.mrball.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:40:44 -0700 ehlo localhost 250-mail.mrball.net Hello 166-205-137-022.mobile.mymmode.com [166.205.137.22] (may be forged), pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP mail from: <[email protected]> 250 2.1.0 <[email protected]>... Sender ok rcpt to: <[email protected]> 250 2.1.5 <[email protected]>... Recipient ok rcpt to: <[email protected]> 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... User unknown rcpt to: <[email protected]> 250 2.1.5 <[email protected]>... Recipient ok quit 221 2.0.0 mail.mrball.net closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. -- Regards... Todd "It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting." "You might be a skeptic if you have pedantically argued the topic of pedantry." -- ## 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/
