[165561] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Caution! Don't attempt the Postini to Google Apps transition

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sun Sep 8 17:49:50 2013

Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:49:08 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <NjfV1m01D1Una3W01jfWxr>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 9/8/2013 2:38 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> Hi Matthew
>
>
> Interesting experience.
>
>> first into a black hole, and then bouncing with permanent failures.
>
>
> What you mean by permanent failures? Can you share error you saw in bounce
> report?

> RFC 2505               Anti-Spam Recommendations           February 1999
>
>
> 1.6. SMTP Return Codes
>
>    SMTP has several classes of Return Codes, see [1] for a discussion:
>
>    o   5xx
>        is a Permanent Negative Completion reply (Fatal Error) and
>        results in the mail transfer being terminated and the mail
>        returned to sender.

-- 
Requiescas in pace o email           Two identifying characteristics
                                         of System Administrators:
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio      Infallibility, and the ability to
                                         learn from their mistakes.
                                           (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post