Hi,

while I agree that an information about the reject reason could be helpful
for the administrator of the sending system please don't forget that
postgrey is more like a check to test if you are dealing with a real mail
system (i.e. something with a queue). Nothing more.

So while this information can be useful for real administrators of
legitimate systems it could also help the bad guys because they could adjust
the retry frequency based on the reject message. In the current status when
the sender doesn't know the exact block time, there's a chance that other
mechanism will be triggered by bad guys (i.e. limits) when the sender is
retrying to fast.


tl;dr
If the reporter wants to provide helpful information for the sender's mail
system administrator he can change the text in "/etc/default/postgrey" for
his setup. But such a change wouldn't be great default for most people.


-Thomas

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