The newer version (that's in CVS and I swear will be released this week) has a much nicer error message that tells you the address in question and an otherwise friendlier message.
Serge Knystautas Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites http://www.lokitech.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "jason sackett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:42 PM Subject: JAMES mail bounces > When I send a mail with a bad domain, I get this from JAMES: > > Delivery failure: javax.mail.MessagingException: No route found to > hotmail2.com > > When I send a mail with a non-existent user, I get this from JAMES: > > Delivery failure: javax.mail.SendFailedException: Invalid Addresses; > nested exception is: > javax.mail.SendFailedException: 550 Requested action not taken: > mailbox unavailable > > > The first case merely makes it very inconvenient to find the bad recipient > address, the latter makes is impossible to disambiguate the bad address from > the good ones, as neither lists the offending recipient addresses. > > It seems that this is not something that is properly fixed with a mailet. > Might this already be fixed in an upcoming release? > Is this just not really an issue (I believe that other mail servers commonly > refer to the recipient address in question when bouncing an email like > this.)? > > Is my best bet to add this common functionality to the my own version of > JAMES myself? > I am doing some automated bounce/address correction handling (via forwarded > email request) currently, but I am trying to simplify and refine it. > > I apologize for the slight run-on here, but I appreciate any insights > offered. > > Thank you in advance, > Jason > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
