[Mimedefang] From RISKs Digest: Vista Mail claims rejected mail has been sent

Ben Kamen bkamen at benjammin.net
Wed Jul 25 18:41:56 EDT 2007


For public consumption...

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> 
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:24:27 +0100
> From: "Neil Youngman" <Neil.Youngman at wirefast.com>
> Subject: Vista Mail claims rejected mail has been sent
> 
> Here's a nice little problem with "Vista Mail". It appears that in some
> circumstances a "550" permanent rejection SMTP response is ignored and Vista
> Mail shows the mail as haven't been sent, even though the mail server
> rejected it.
> 
> http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20070718.140135.4765aa65.en.html
> 
> The reason seems to be that Vista mail can't handle multiline responses
> correctly.
> 
> http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20070719.161335.f220a4a6.en.html
> 
> The risks of MS being unable to implement a simple protocol correctly are
> obvious.
> 
> Neil Youngman, Developer, Wirefast Limited   +44 (0)20 7592 1258


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