Re: temporary failure warning message

[Russ Allbery]

Racer X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>> this was my point earlier, you can't always count on getting an error
>> message if there is an error, because there's _always_ a chance that
>> the message will be lost without a trace.  so if you do make errors

> Not if you have a halfway decent MTA.  Writing bulletproof software is
> not impossible.  There are only so many states the message can be in.

Yeah, but just because a bounce message was generated doesn't mean that
the user gets it.  I've seen a depressing quantity of users that put all
sorts of random trash in their envelope sender and never see any of their
bounces.

Ideally, I'd track down the double-bounces and get the user to fix their
configuration so that they see further bounces, but there really isn't
enough time in the day for any significant user base.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>