On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Francesco Vertova wrote: > Hi all, > > if an address in the envelope of a spool file fails the syntax check (I had an > example of a null recipient, "RCPT TO:<>"), currently XMail raises a -55 > ERR_INVALID_SPOOL_FILE error and silently freezes the message. > > I think in these cases a bounce would be appropriate, to let the sender know > that delivery failed due to a syntax error (most likely a typo). Keep in mind > that MUAs which drop stuff in spool/local bypass SMTP checks and feedback.
What you have seen in the latest bug report, it is a bug. You cannot have an invalid spool file (unless you either screw it up with a filter or you open an editor an change it) since it is generated by XMail and addresses are checked before. Take a MAIL FROM:<...> parse failure example. If that fails to parse, how could XMail know where to send the bounce? Simply put, these are bugs and internal errors, that happened in a pre-release, from which there is no sane recovery. - Davide _______________________________________________ xmail mailing list xmail@xmailserver.org http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail
