Le Mon 29/06/2009, EASY steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk disait > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:56 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > > On 6/29/2009 2:41 PM, Steve wrote: > > >>> You are, of course, correct. It would be totally retarded to be able to > > >>> switch of bounce/ndr messages. > > > > >> Yes, it would, since it breaks smtp... > > > > > So does the notion of 'Before Queue Filtering'. I think it goes > > > something like 'You must decide to accept or reject a message before the > > > DATA command'. > > > > > > Are we *selective* in the parts of the SMTP RFC's we adhear to? > > > > Nope, just able to read... > > > > http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html > > > Me to. RFC821, in particular; > > "The DATA command should fail only if the mail transaction was > incomplete (for example, no recipients), or if resources are not > available." > > So as far as I can see rejecting mail after the data command is munging > the RFC's to provide a feature with the MTA.
RFC 821 is obsolte. See section 4.2.5 of RFC 2821... -- Erwan