[103794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Mon Apr 14 12:28:07 2008
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:50:18 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <18434.20073.552563.109117@world.std.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Barry Shein wrote:
>
> For example, and it's only an example don't quibble the example,
> defining a list of return SMTP codes which are actually specific and
> meaningful like (let's assume they should be 5xx, maybe 7xx would be a
> better start? Policy failure codes)
> [...]
> and so on, a taxonomy which could then at least be dealt with
> intelligently by sending MTAs and supporting software rather than each
> side cooking up their own stuff.
See RFC 3463. Unfortunately it doesn't help much to solve the problem it
was designed for. I ranted about this a while back...
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ima/current/msg00588.html
Tony.
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