At 12:37 AM 3/17/2003 +0000, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
5xx mostly demands that if you retry, do so later, *manually*. What it
>>does say is that the remote domain refuses to accept delivery of the
>>current message.
>
>what current message? [BTW, the connection might have been just a
>sender/callout verify]
the message (I don't care if it was a callout, a mail sent from outlook
express, whatever) which, when sent, was rejected with a 5xx response.
>I am sorry, but until the intention of delivering a message has been
>stated, the error cannot mean that the domain refuses to accept *the*
>delivery.
Connection to a host on port 25, implies some attempt to deliver, even if
the attempt is partial (such as a callout).
> To provide reliable
> mail transmission, the SMTP client MUST be able to try (and retry)
> each of the relevant addresses in this list in order, until a
> delivery attempt succeeds. However, there MAY also be a configurable
> limit on the number of alternate addresses that can be tried. In any
> case, the SMTP client SHOULD try at least two addresses.
Did the RFC above say what kind of error it is talking about? In this
context, I can only conclude that they are referring to 4xx
srs
