Hey Michael,
At 13:46 -0400 2003/09/25, Johnson, Michael [IT] wrote:
>Hey guys,
> When a message this a deny by an rbl I would like a nice message to
>be displayed. I did this via the message = " my really long nice message to
>the user"... I have two issues though.
I think I understand this... you would like to have a message
displayed in the mailbox of the (alleged) sender. I am afraid but...
>1. I would like not to send a bounce if possible but ranter exim spawn an
>email somehow including my message as the body.. .
any new mail message generated as a result of a failure is a bad
thing, call it bounce or not (the content does not make your custom
message any different from a bounce). Most messages (almost all) that
are rejected because of an rbl match will have a forged sender. If
that is an inexistent address that's not too bad, otherwise you just
end up annoying (and spamming) another email user.
>2. If the user doesn't exist it still gives something like this, can this be
>excluded?
as I said you should rather exclude existing users...
>550 5.1.1 <test@???>... User unknown
><<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA
what the hell is this? This is the SMTP dialog for someone attempting
to give a DATA command before a valid recipient has been accepted by
the server. So?
>Thanks for your time.
and for our disk space perhaps? Do you realise that you replied to a
totally unrelated message and LEFT that in your message?
This list is getting worse. Is this the effect of the holidays? This
is not the beach, will all the holiday makers leave please?
(Nothing personal, my reaction is just the result of a sum of things).
Thanks
Giuliano
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