On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, David Cantrell wrote: > > > especially as he sends a 450, which is SO wrong, as I damned well know that > > > the destination address exists. > > It's not the recipient address his server is bitching about but rather the > > sender address. > > According to RFC 821, a 450 status means "mailbox unavailable".
Yes the code means that however I think we all know that many folks use whatever 4xx number they've seen before just to indicate a temporary failure and rely upon the message text to inform of the actual error condition. > > Are you really seeing so many messags that it has become a serious issue > > for you? > > No, it's just a bit irritating. Yes I know. I regularly check up on our backup MX server and manually remove messages that are obviously dead. I suppose I could just leave it however this way there are fewer futile delivery attempts. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ Get the T-Shirt Now
