Hector Santos wrote:
>
> I just read in our support list, a message asking:
>
>    Also, anyone ever had to deal with getting a 461 error from
>    yahoo servers?
>
> Does anyone know what this means?
>
> Also, some rhetorical questions:
>
> It should not cause a state machine flow issue, but why is YAHOO
> throwing mud in the water by using a reply code clearly bound to have
> a conflict with a SMTP client?
>
> Couldn't YAHOO live within the specification x0z to x5z reply code
> guidelines?
>
> Is YAHOO special? <g>
>
Have you seen the error? Are you sure it's not something like:
450 4.6.1 ....

which is valid AFAIAA. Someone who isn't up on SMTP might call the
'4.6.1' code a '461 error'

If not, then:

- it shouldn't cause any significant state machine issues (it wouldn't
with our software, any unrecognised 4xx codes are treated identically,
it doesn't care whether they're valid or not).

- Yahoo should live within the specs

- No, but they think they are (like Google and many other large ISPs)


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Paul Smith

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