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James P. Roberts wrote:
>>>if the host sending this 5xx is the primary MX host for the domain,
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>>Slight problem here. There may not be *a* primary MX. There may be
>>several MX's with equal priority. But I don't think it affects your
>>argument very much.
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>Correct. It does not affect my argument at all. (I've lived with multiple
>bosses of equal authority, and I learned really quickly to take the first
>answer I got!)
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>Jim Roberts
>Punster Productions, Inc.
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But you never had the situation where one of the bosses was
decommisioned but that information just didn't propagate to you yet.
Interpret 554 to be something along the lines of that decommisioned boss
saying I cannot answer that for you. It's not 5xx we are talking about,
but rather the specific code of 554. The original request that started
this thread was not for all 5xx to be treated as 4xx, but rather that
554 itself could be handled differently. While there may be many
postmasters who would blacklist someone trying to get around their 500
level return those postmasters shouldn't be sending out a 554 on connect.
Eric
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