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Re: Out of paper (was: John Levine says: SPF Loses Mindshare?)

2005-08-06 08:13:28
--On Samstag, August 06, 2005 14:01:48 +0200 Frank Ellermann <nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> wrote:

Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

The advocates of "not rejecting" a PermError were actually
recommending rejecting with SMTP TEMPFAIL (451) instead of
550.

TempErrors are supposed to go away without human intervention
- or at least that's my concept for 4xx = "try again later".
Like "busy".  Unlike "out of paper".

Slightly wrong. Temporary errors are supposed to go away without intervention by the sender. There are no assumptions concerning manual intervention on the recipients side.

Ralf Döblitz