On Wed, 28 May 2003, Riaz wrote: > I'm having problems with the way XMAIL behaves when it encounters > a full mailbox or other error. > > Let's say I have an email and I send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a mailbox full, Xmail will give me an error message and > none of the users get the email. > > I believe this was brought up a looong time ago, and I understand it is the RFC > compliant way of dealing with the error situation, but it becomes very > cumbersome > to some of my clients who may have 30 or 40 people on a email distribution > list, > and they get an error from XMAIL, and the entire email does not go through > to anyone. > They have to figure out which email caused the problem and then they have > to modify their > email distribution list to not send email to the 1 or 2 mailboxes causing > the problem. > > Is there a way to set up XMAIL so that it will deliver to all of the valid > mailboxes even if 1 > of the mailboxes in the email list had an error, i.e. mailbox full, etc... > > I hope this makes sense. Thanks!
I'm sorry but it doesn't. XMail does give OK response to other recipients, so the MUA could indeed send the message. But many MUA consider the "send" as atomic transaction and do not send the message at all. This yes could be seen as a bug. An MTA *has* to behave in such way, it is written inside the protocol specification. An it is not some weird lemma written with 0.2p font, it the bare bone of the protocol. Every MTA I'm aware of behave in this way. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
