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Dawn Keenan <dkeenan@...> wrote:

> The sendmail authors switched from 4.7.1 (transient error, security or
> policy status, delivery not authorized) to 4.3.2 (transient error, mail
> system status, system not not accepting network messages).
> 
> Details of enhanced status codes are in RFC 1893; while 4.7.1 is
> technically correct, making the remote system think 4.3.2 applies is
> friendlier to broken MTAs and shouldn't affect spamware significantly.
> It might actually help since 4.3.2 as an enhanced status code is valid
> for reasons other than anti-spam filtering (e.g. system load too high
> to accept mail) and 4.7.1 is pretty much restricted to anti-spam
> measures.

Right. Anyone wants to contribute an smtpcode option for the config
file? Something such as this:

smtpcode "451" "4.3.2"

Easy to code, useful for everyone.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
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