On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 08:33:43PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 08:29:42PM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote:
> > Well first off, can someone explain to me the reasoning
> > behind the bare linefeed restriction? I hope it is an actual
> > standard that this restriction is trying to make other MTA's
> > adhere to.
> >
> > So anyway, 2 questions:
> >
> > 1) Does anyone have a list of commonly used mail
> > servers that violate this? Personally, I've seen a few
> > instances of mail servers going crazy hitting me once
> > per second trying to deliver mail and just getting
> > status 256 over and over, I'm thinking it's probably the
> > bare linefeed thing causing this behavior and if they're
> > on a bigger pipe than my qmail server, it really hurts
> > my connection. I'd really like to know which servers
> > might exhibit this behavior. Most recently, I tried to
> > sign up for an eval version of Legato's backup software
> > and all I see in my mail logs is a connection from
> > augusta2.legato.com every four hours with a status
> > of 256, nice huh?
>
> qmail doesn't return an error code of 256 for the bare lf problem, it returns
> 553.
The qmail-smtpd binary returns an exit code of 256, and this is what you see in
your logs. The 553 is for the remote host.
Chris
