On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:52:55AM -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:43:12AM -0700, Greg White wrote:
> > I, personally, favour the idea that a 5xx permanent failure with a nasty note
> > should get sent, rather than 4xx.
>
> I've made that argument before. That particular message, bursting as it is with
> bare linefeeds, will never, ever be accepted by qmail-smtpd. So why send a
> temporary error message, suggesting to the sender that he might have better
> luck if he submits the exact same message later?
Because a competent admin of a non-competent mailserver can try to fix
the bug (by means of a software upgrade, for example) while the
message is still in the queue.
Greetz, Peter
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