On May 11, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
I'm not following this thread closely, but I thought I'd say something
about extended status codes. Part of the idea of extended status codes
is that you should be able to determine the likely source of the
problem by looking at the second facet of the status code. Or to put
it another way, the second facet of the status code is supposed to
indicate _who_ probably needs to fix the problem (e.g. the sender, the
MSA, a relay, the delivery agent, etc.)
I haven't implemented this, but I have to say I really like this approach.
Perhaps the proposal would benefit from making such distinctions in the new
codes it's registering.
If you're going to make the second facet of the status code be who probably
needs to fix the problem, you could also make the third facet point to where
they need to go to fix it.
It doesn't even need to be that detailed. 1 for this is internal (so you need
to contact the recipient domain) and 2 for this is external (so you need to
contact a third party). Then follow that with a URL pointing to the third party
or the postmaster / internal troubleshooting pages.
laura
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