[ On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 23:26:49 (+0100), Florian Weimer wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: For exim sake! Re: [Exim] Reaction to rude 554 greeting
>
> Maybe the 554 greeting makes sense in the following environment: an
> internal mail server which is used by MUAs as smarthost has been
> migrated to a different host. The 554 message helps the users to
> adjust their settings.
Yes, that's plausible -- it would cause more timely response than just
returning TCP RST would do, though it will likely still cause a lot of
confusion and bad feelings. You'd have to be in a real bind with many
users using a smarthost setting with a fixed literal IP# that you will
soon lose control over (e.g. you are renumbering to a new network) to be
forced into employing such a drastic measure.
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Greg A. Woods
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