[Mimedefang] Virus scanner tempfail can cause RFC2821 violation

Mark Suter mark.suter at miju.com.au
Wed Mar 12 21:12:27 EST 2003


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I wrote:

> A problem with a virus scanner after the DATA command has been
> issued causes a violation of RFC2821, section 4.1.1.4:

David Skoll followed-up:

> A temporary failure indication is allowed by the RFC; read it
> carefully.
>
> What the RFC says is you can't allow for *PARTIAL* failures.
> That is, you can't allow for success for some recipients, and
> failures for others.

That makes sense -- I was wrong.  My apologies...

Yours sincerely,

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