That's exactly why I tend to tell the pointy haired ones that it all works on the FM principle and never go into much depth about what that means.
(note: FM = "Fucking Magic" but they don't need to know that) It was fun tho the first time the owner of the company I work for tried to add an email account using a script that i created and flubbed the password on his sudo command. He is technical in a microsquishy kinda way and thought that it was MY code that was telling him he had a brain the size of a cabbage (or some such, the exact message is lost to time). Boy, many zoggs fell prey to the snarlak that day. He was pretty mad and might even have fired me, but then he realized that he needed an email account added to the server and he would have to pay a crap load more money than he is giving me to have someone come in and figure out how. s > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Tom Bombadil > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 02:37 PM > To: Peter Fraser > Cc: '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: spamd - 250 return text > > > 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. > > > __________ NOD32 2442 (20070807) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com
