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Re: Zmailer 2.2 SMTP sender interpretation of a 552 reply

To: Chris Siebenmann <cks@sys.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: Zmailer 2.2 SMTP sender interpretation of a 552 reply
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 12:50:01 -0400
cc: zmailer@cs.toronto.edu
In-Reply-To: <96May10.191035edt.38942@ferut.sys.toronto.edu>


On Fri, 10 May 1996, Chris Siebenmann wrote:

>  The SMTP sender in Zmailer 2.2 (e8 and straight 2.2) appears to
> treat a 552 reply (RFC 821: 'Requested mail action aborted: exceeded
> storage allocation') as only a temporary error (EX_TEMPFAIL in the
> smtpwrite() routine in transports/smtp.c).
> 
>  Is my understanding of the code correct? Is my understanding of the
> situation with 552 errors correct? Does anyone know why Zmailer doesn't
> treat 552 as a permanent error and keeps retrying the message, if it
> does do it for this reason? Is it reasonable to make the obvious fix?
> 
> 	- cks

  Well, an "exceeded storage allocation" error is a temporary error.

Tom

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Zmailer 2.2 SMTP sender interpretation of a 552 reply
  - From: James MacKinnon <jmack@phys.ualberta.ca> (Sat, 11 May 1996 20:14:42 +0300)

References:
- Zmailer 2.2 SMTP sender interpretation of a 552 reply
  - From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@sys.toronto.edu>

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