As far as I understand from them, the sysadmin was showing the defer to his boss using a telnet session, and the boss got pissed off, because they are actually very diligent about their spam policies.
Anyways, I just wanted to know if it there was another way to change the 250 messages without changing the source code... I should have just not mentioned my reasons. Sorry for that. Thanks a lot for all the replies. g. Peter Fraser wrote: > I think that the problem is a bad mail program at your clients, > A user should not see the 250 status, it is not a > failure of any sort but I have seen it as a return > status sent to a user. > > Here is an example that I have seen from someone who sent us > a message. The message failed and this is the status that they > received: > > Reporting-MTA: dns; toq7.bellnexxia.net > Arrival-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:26:11 -0400 > Received-From-MTA: dns; Christine (64.230.70.248) > Content-Type: text/plain > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Action: failed > Status: 4.4.7 > Remote-MTA: dns; thinkage.ca > Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 250 This is hurting you more than it is hurting me.

