I should also note that my own message below that I quoted is hypocritical
on my part. If the mail was IETF mail or other important email, I would
have a different opinion. Of course, It was hypocritical of me to say that
mail to others is any less important to its senders and recipients. I
should not have encouraged this type of behavior. It shows that I too can
be disgusted with things, and encourage an inappropriate response to
stupid behavior. It is certainly something that one should try to avoid
in oneself, and criticize in others.
--Dean
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Dean Anderson wrote:
Verizon is trying to do a "sender verification test". This is a dumb
idea whose time didn't come. But no matter.
Here is a message from Randy Bush on the subject. I frequently disagree
with Randy, but in this case, I think he has the right idea.
--Dean
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I think he's saying that they were unable to perform the
validation hence the 450. If the validation was successful,
they'd return a 200 series code, if it was unsuccessful, they
would return a 500 series code.
nice words, but crap. due to needs to spool mail for sites in
countries with very poor connectivity, mail spool time here is
quite long. if verizon and others seem unable to decide in weeks,
why should i pay the penalty?
but, i guess the problem is easily solved with exim config. i have
set it so that if it can not deliver to verizon in say one hour, it
dumps the mail.
verizon.net * F,1h,5m
life is simple, except for verizon users i guess.
randy