On 2 Feb 2000, Lorens Kockum wrote:
> How difficult would it be to add it in? RFC 821 says data can
> only get the permanent errors "exceeded storage allocation" and
> "Transaction failed", but I can argue that storage space for
> spam is 0 on my system :-)
RFC 821 is very old, and does not describe today's world very well. The
revision thereof is in the last stages of the IETF process and may (at
last!) see the light of day this year. However, in the matter of return
codes it hasn't changed much, but personally I am quite happy to use
554 Transaction failed
for errors after DATA. After all, that's what happened!
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