John C Klensin wrote (2007-07-17):
 
> Arnt Gulbrandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> My code to implement this does
>> 
>>      if all rejected
>>         answer "CR LF . CR LF" with 5xx
>>     else if all accepted
>>         2xx
>>     else
>>         2xx, and send a DSN with the exact details
>> 
>> The third case is very, very uncommon in practice, so I'm not
>> all that worried by its ill effects.
 
> yep.  It is also no worse than "accept everything, send DSNs as
> needed later" which, for better or worse, 2821 explicitly
> contemplates.

BTW, while I'm still catching up with old messages:  The BSI, a
federal agency for IT security in Germany, allegedly recommends
that all federal organizations in Germany cease to send NDRs,
ignoring RFC 2821 for better or worse:

<http://www.heise.de/ix/news/meldung/96350> (German article)
<http://purl.net/net/de2en/heise.de/ix/news/meldung/print/96350>
The second link is a crude translation provided by Google.

 Frank

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