Re: [exim-dev] [PATCH] Implement redirect

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:20:33PM +0200, David Saez Padros wrote:
>
> if the sender get the 551 code (some MTA's just hide the real 5xx code)
> and if the sender understands english and if the sender is able to
> recognize the bounce error in the middle of the bounce message, most
> users will just discard the bounce and the recipient will never get that
> mail.

The assumption that all your senders can figure out what a 551 bounce message
means is not something everyone can do, yes. But as said before I don't pretend
that this feature is useful to everyone.

> > That said, I have interest in implementing the sender part for Exim.
>
> this would be really interesting for some situations, specially if it can
> be sure (or the behaviour could be customized) that the remote client
> understands (and redirects) the 551 code

I mean the sender part (the one that should understand the 551 code).

> >> and what about using RFC 1035 experimental 'MR' (Mail Rename) 'MB'
> >> (Mailbox) and 'MG' (Mail Group) DNS records ?
> >
> > That seems to serve a different purpose (affecting mail sent by some senders,
> > rather than mail sent by any of them).
>
> it affects mail sent by any sender that is able to process that records

Then it's not any sender :)

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Robert Millan