On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Peter Velan wrote: > > > I heard some rumors about SMTP-servers having problems with multiline > > 5xx-messages and I want to be on the safe side of the game. > > Such servers are hopelessly broken, if they exist.
They certainly exist. I was sent a problem report last week which allegedly contained our response to their mail offer. In this particular situation, we emit a single long line, which exim apparently breaks after the word "Please". deny message = "This email scored $spam_score spam points \ ${if >{$ACL_BLACKLIST}{0}{(+$ACL_BLACKLIST leak) }{}}\ and was rejected. Please contact \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] if this is a mistake. The remote MTA told its user that we'd responded as follows: X-Supplementary-Info: <cernmxlb.cern.ch #5.5.0 smtp;550-"This email scored 0.0 spam points (+90 leak) and was rejected. Please> Consequently the invitation to contact our postmaster for assistance had been suppressed. > The specification for multiline responses has been around for over > 20 years. A certain dominant vendor does not read interworking specifications, that's only too clear. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/