Hello, on 04.09.2003 20:52, Stefan Jeglinski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've maintained a running dialog with Eudora support at Qualcomm for > quite a while. I have no idea if any of you can thank me for fixed > bugs or not :-) > > Anyway, relatively recently, word from Qualcomm apparently came down > from on high: as a new spam-fighting feature to their direct contact > e-mail addresses (used if you get an answer after you pass their > web-based bug submission proc), *all* messages to those direct > e-mails are automatically temp-failed to discourage the spammers. > Idea being that responsible mail servers will try later (the mail > will then be accepted), while spammers will move on. This doesn't > sound effective to me except in the case of brain dead spammers > (well, OK, maybe there is some use). Despite the groans about this > technique from the Eudora support staff themselves, it is a real > policy with real ramifications. > > To wit: > > SIMS interprets the temp failure as a permanent failure, a > shortcoming that has been discussed here many times. SIMS does -not- > try to deliver the message again, so the communication never goes > through. > > I'm not soliciting discussion of Qualcomm's technique or its > shortcomings. I am soliciting Stalker to fix this. It's not a feature > request - it seems to me a reasonable thing to do, even though SIMS > development is essentially stopped. It might be a good time to review > SIMS handling of all such 4xx messages - I don't know how many other > anomalies there may be. > > Really, how hard would this be to do?
The problem is that in this case SIMS should retry just the failed address in the message, not the entire message (otherwise the other active addresses in the message will receive duplicates.) The Queue management code in SIMS is quite old and was not written by me, and it scares me to death to touch it... -- Best regards, Dmitry Akindinov ======================================================================= When answering to letters sent to you by the tech.support staff, make sure the original message you have received is included into your reply. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
