On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, David F. Skoll wrote:
Now, there *are* some marginal SMTP servers that fail in the
following scenario:
C: HELO myname.domain.com
S: 250 whatever
C: MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
S: 250 2.1.0 go ahead
C: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
S: 451 4.7.1 greylisting; try in 2
Tomasz Ostrowski 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
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
Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
But it is also within its rights to issue 4xx. And if it makes it
more reliable then why not?
Well, it's a matter of philosophy, I guess. I can't see sendmail.org
accepting a patch for this. Look at it this way: Sendmail has every
reason to assume that if an SMTP
David F. Skoll wrote:
Web browsing, P2P and FTP probably swamp e-mail.
FTP? You mean people still use that?
;)
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