On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, CLEMENT Francis wrote: > > Hello Davide and list > > I don't know if i reported this problem before so excuse me if allready > done. > > On my xmail 1.22 (w2k sp4 win32 platform) I noticed the following symptom : > > When a mail is send to an external 'TO' address (not handled by xmail) and > the 'TO' address is syntaxicaly bad in the domain part (special characters > like quote, see sample slog bellow) xmail retries and retries, until > reaching last retry and finaly send back a NDR report ! > Why xmail, on 'bad domain names', retries (no resolvable at all, my win32 > nslookup says "command syntax error")? > This is a big problem for our customers as they don't receive a NDR > immediately after first try (like previously with xmail 1.17, never used > 1.18/1.9/1.20/1.21). They know only the error after several hours/days > (depending of xmail retries patterns used) > > Seems xmail don't really check syntaxicaly the domain part of the 'TO' > addresses !?!? > Notice that I don't use the 'smartdnshost' setting, so xmail use its own > resolver from begining to end of domain dns mx resolution. So even if xmail > don't check the syntax, the xmail dns resolver should return at least a 'no > existing domain' or 'bad request' and then the smail module should stop > immediatly, no ? > (I don't know own xmail handle the dns responses and what is the exact dns > response in this case ...) > > Any other guys having this problem ? > Any ideas Davide ?
While anal address checking is planned for the next release, the friggin MUA should fscking check that too, no? It can provide a better UI to the user instead of a cryptic SMTP response, no? - 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]
