On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, David F. Skoll wrote: > > This could be avoided if sendmail would tempfail "data" requests if > > any "rcpt to" request tempfailed and every "rcpt to" request tempfailed > > or permfailed. > > But the RFC says that an SMTP client MUST NOT issue a DATA command unless > at least one RCPT succeeded, so Sendmail is within its rights to issue > a 5xx failure code.
Of course. But it is also within its rights to issue 4xx. And if it makes it more reliable then why not? This would not encourage the developers of broken servers to fix them or administrators to migrate. But it could be better than tempfailing after "data" because tempfailing "rcpt to" sometimes does not work - it will not waste bandwidth. Pozdrawiam Tometzky -- Best of prhn - najzabawniejsze teksty polskiego UseNet-u http://prhn.dnsalias.org/ Chaos zawsze pokonuje porządek, gdyż jest lepiej zorganizowany. [ Terry Pratchett ] _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
