On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:51:02AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > there was a discussion on the main qmail list recently if messages with
> > an empty envelope sender may contain more than one recipient. We agreed
> > they may not. Charles Cazabon wrote a small patch implementing this
> > restriction.
> [...]
> > +void err_badbounce() { out("553 sorry, I don't accept bounce messages with more
>than 1 recipient. Go read RFC 2821. (#5.7.1)\r\n"); }
> When I was writing the patch for vanilla qmail, I spent half an hour
> with RFC2821 to see which status value was the most appropriate for this
> error. RFC2821 section 4.2.2 defines 550 having a meaning (among
> others) of "Requested action not taken ... command rejected for policy
> reasons", whereas 553 is "... mailbox name not allowed (e.g. mailbox
> syntax incorrect)".
Sorry, that's a slap on my side. Should be 550.
Thanks, Charles.
Greetz
Henning
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