----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Levine via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org>

> In article <20201215230437.ga23...@aether.stupidest.org> you write:
>>things break, it happens...
>>
>>but why 5xx (vs 4xx) in this case?
> 
> Because it's broken.
> 
> HTH, HAND,
> John

Sure, I haven't had to sweep up behind John for a while, why not?

"Because the send-mail cluster and the receive-mail cluster aren't both
properly connected to the same auth server, so the receive-mail cluster can't
tell those are valid mailboxes... even though presumably it *has the physical
mailboxes handy*.

Cheers,
-- jra
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