Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Message-ID: <cjnAWQq00WBwM9xk93@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 15:50:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU>
To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: RFC 821 problem list
In-Reply-To: <810.801948517@munnari.OZ.AU>
References: <810.801948517@munnari.OZ.AU>
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Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:
> I am confused.  What is 522? 

Typo.  It's 552, which covers at least two conditions, depending on
whether it is in response to RCPT or the final dot of DATA.  I'm
mostly concerned about the 552 response to RCPT.

> I much prefer to bounce these potential long term problems,
> which includes over quota, so the sender can contact the
> administration of the dest site, and see if they can correct
> the problem. 

I suppose you'd like to turn all 4XX codes into 5XX codes then?  If a
DNS server is down or the mail spool partition is full, shouldn't the
mail be bounced so that someone contacts the administration?

> Over quota usually equates to "user on holiday
> and not reading mail",

Key word here is "usually".  Our users frequently go over quota for
only minutes or hours at a time.  If our mail system bounced mail when
they temporarily went over quota instead of queueing it for N days
then we would have a lot more problems and aggravation.

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