[Mimedefang] Can I defer or tempfail individual recipients?
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Jun 20 12:48:06 EDT 2008
Delahunty, Mark wrote:
> Is id OK to return this, so sendmail tempfails an individual recipient,
> or is tempfail valid only for a message not a recipient?
In theory this will work. For well-written SMTP clients (such as the
big 3 open-source UNIX ones), it will work in practice. However, some
commercial SMTP clients have pooly-tested SMTP state machines and may
bounce an e-mail if *all* RCPT commands are tempfailed. I'm also not
sure how carefully requeing is done if only a subset of RCPTs fail.
Regards,
David.
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