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Re: Improved straw man for retry scenarios

2008-08-09 19:31:54

At 9:37 pm -0400 9/8/2008, Hector Santos wrote:
John Levine wrote:

Which, if any, of a, d, and r get retried?  Why or why not?  What if
the 554 were a 421 or 451?

DATA 554 trumps them all.  No Retries for this transaction.

There are actually 3 transactions, one for each recipient. The 554 response to the DATA command only applies to the transactions that haven't already been rejected or delayed.

If this is not the case, then indeed, it goes on to explain why we have serious issues for clients mainly but also for servers who has to bear the burden of clients not following a long time solid state machine and fundamental principle.

If it was the case, then you would have an inconsistency between what would happen if the same 3 transactions were handled individually.

Consider an equivalent, but suboptimal, sender sending 3 copies of the same message:
  MAIL FROM:<s>
  250 ok

  RCPT TO:<a>
  250 ok

  DATA
  blah blah
  .
  554 ugh

  RSET
  250 ok

  MAIL FROM:<s>
  250 ok

  RCPT TO:<d>
  450 try later

  RSET
  250 ok

  MAIL FROM:<s>
  250 ok

  RCPT TO:<r>
  550 no such user

  QUIT
  220 server

Glenn.