> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:mimedefang- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Brennan > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 1:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] questions about filter parsing, message > mod'ing, and bouncing messages > > > RFC 2821 says "The maximum total length of a reply line including the > reply code and the <CRLF> is 512 characters." That's pretty long so > maybe you never reach it. I think I'd still make $names a substr of > itself to make sure. > > Some of the office-memo systems like Exchange and Lotus Notes can > throw away or hide SMTP error messages and replace them with generic > messages like "You do not have permission to send". It can be pretty > hard to get a good error report from their users (and it's not the end > users' fault that it's so hard). >
My perl skills are weak at best. How would one make $names a substr of itself? I too have seen cases where Exchange has mangled, chopped, or "interpreted" an error message, but I still feel it's my duty to at least try and pass on a useful message. Jason A. Bertoch Network Administrator [email protected] Electronet Broadband Communications 3411 Capital Medical Blvd. Tallahassee, FL 32308 (V) 850.222.0229 (F) 850.222.8771 _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
