"250 2.1.5" is specifically meant to tell you the recipient address is
accepted, and you'll see that during the SMTP transaction to most any ISP,
like:
...
mail from: <address>
250 2.1.0 OK [id]
*rcpt to: <address>*
*250 2.1.5 OK [id] *
data
354  Go ahead
...

And you're right that Microsoft also adds "2.1.5" to their delivery
response, but *only* when you're sending to one of their freemail domains
like hotmail.com.

That's interesting to me because if you're sending to a private MS domain,
they *don't* ever include 2.1.5 in the response. That's when you start to
notice that every response between MS's freemail and private domains
includes different codes, from accepted deliveries to bounces. I've assumed
it's all an effort to promote a commitment to privacy/autonomy for their
paid users, highlighting that a delivery on the server-level is still
susceptible to individual domain admin policy.

Anyone notice something different?

--
Anna Ward
Postmarkapp.com


On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 2:33 PM Alexander Burch <[email protected]>
wrote:

> A typical Microsoft successfully delivery looks like this at the moment:
>
> *250 2.6.0* <[email protected]>
> [InternalId=33775622235527, Hostname=
> DB5E4H82HT026.eop-EUR03.prod.protection.outlook.com] 26376 bytes in
> 0.420, 61.327 KB/sec Queued mail for delivery -> *250 2.1.5*
>
> It begins with 250 2.6.0 and ends with 250 2.1.5. Why are there 2 status
> codes? Does the second one provide additional context, maybe something like
> "not blackholed"? Or is it just repetitive and therefore insignificant?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
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