Re: [Exim] Exim gives a 421 after issuing a 550?

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Author: Greg Ward
Date:  
To: Juha Saarinen
CC: Suresh Ramasubramanian, exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim gives a 421 after issuing a 550?
On 16 October 2001, Juha Saarinen said:
> Doesn't happen here:
>
> # telnet localhost 25

[...]
> mail from:idiot@???
> 550-Anti-spam measures rejected your email.
> 550 rejected: administrative prohibition
>
> Although I'd like to get rid of that extra '-' after 550... got this in
> reject.messages:


No you wouldn't. The SMTP spec states that all lines 1 .. N-1 of a
respose start with "###-", and the last line starts with "### ". Exim
is just following the spec, as it generally does.

        Greg
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