[TAG] A couple of questions regarding Mail policy

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:18:24PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Thus, your system can conduct those (in my experience _highly_ useful)
> checks and issue a meaningful Delivery Status Notification (SMTP error
> code and text message), accordingly.  Something like:
> 
> 550  Delivery refused, because the alleged sender domain lacks a postmaster
> 550  address as required by RFC2821.

Shouldn't that first one be '550-'?

And *can* you do extended reply messages in SMTP, like you can in FTP?
I never read the RFC that deeply.

> Further, Debian's package maintainer (I'm mentioning this in case that's
> what you run) has made his Exim4 package default to a configuration mode
> in which there's a tree of configuration fragments inside /etc/exim4, 
> from which /etc/exim4/exim.conf gets assembled by a script.  The idea is
> that such as structure is more friendly to automatic upgrading and
> maintenance routines -- and it is.  It's just a little difficult to get
> used to, at first.

It's similar to the architectural work RedHat did on things like xinetd
and SysVInit and the /etc/sysconfig stuff.  It does make things easier
to *do*, at, as you note, the cost of a little more learning curve.

Cheers,
-- jra
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