On 4/20/2011 5:07 PM, W B Hacker wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote:
>> Trying to understand the smtp protocol with multiple recipients. From
>> what I understand the recipients are specified as follows:
>>
>> rcpt to:person1@???
>> 250 Accepted
>> rcpt to:person2@???
>> 250 Accepted
>> rcpt to:person3@???
>> 250 Accepted
>>
>> Suppose I'm doing forward callouts to verify recipients. And suppose
>> person2@??? is a bad email address. How should the server respond
>> to say that there is one bad address but 2 are ok?
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is pass the email for the good recipients and
>> reject the email for the bad recipients at SMTP time.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Marc,
>
> ...... ???
>
> - just as an acceptance code is returned for each accepted recipient,
> so, too a rejection code is returned for each one that is unwanted.
>
> - as with any other rejection, it may be temporary or permanent.
>
> Either way... at final rejection ELSE retry timeout, submitting MTA
> generates a DSN to the sender so advising. Well 'real' MTA do. Dunno
> about the 'bots. Or care.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bill
Weird - now everything seems to be working. Like it was haunted and the
ghost went away ......
