Reindl Harald:
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> Am 20.03.2013 00:26, schrieb Wietse Venema:
> > John Levine:
> >> RFC 5321 says that if a mail server gives an initial banner with a 554
> >> status code, that means "no mail server here", so the client should do
> >> whatever it normally does on a connection failure, looking for another
> >> MX at equal or lower priority.
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> > I don't think that Postfix has ever distinguished between 5xx codes
> > at this protocol stage. The documentation says:
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> > smtp_skip_5xx_greeting (default: yes)
> >
> > Skip remote SMTP servers that greet with a 5XX status code
> > (go away, do not try again later).
> >
> > By default, the Postfix SMTP client moves on the next mail
> > exchanger. Specify "smtp_skip_5xx_greeting = no" if Postfix
> > should bounce the mail immediately. The default setting is
> > incorrect, but it is what a lot of people expect to happen
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> now i am more confused as before
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> what the documentation above and the description says is not to
> bounce it, the RFC seems to indicate this too, so i do not get
> "The default setting is incorrect" in my picture
As I wrote, I will update the documentation which predates the
time that 554 was a defined greeting code.
Wietse
