Marc Perkel wrote:
> There's another issue here that supersedes the RFCs. If the recipient
> server intends to reject the message then I agree. However if the
> recipient server is a customer of mine and I know for sure based on the
> response code that the rejection is in error, that it was unintended,
> and that the customer would want me to detect, report, and preserve the
> email then that's different. In my case I know that if I forward email
> to the customer and I get a 500 - Relaying Denied error that is not what
> the customer really wants to happen.
>
> My point - if the server replies with 550 but is doing so in error -
> that's different
>
If server A sends a message to server B, and server B replies with a 5xx
code, but does not mean it, and so it should instead be treated (by
server A) as a 4xx error, then you should fix server B, and not try to
make A interpret B's reply differently.
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