Mailing List Archive: Error responses from dbmail-lmtp

Error responses from dbmail-lmtp

Apr 21, 2004, 9:43 AM

Post #1 of 4 (438 views)

Hi,

the information dbmail-lmtpd provides if an error occures is quite
short:

SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<tmm@test.example.com>:
host localhost [127.0.0.1]: 550 Recipient <tmm@test.example.com> FAIL

In that case I had no alias.

Cyrus returns for example:
550-Mailbox unknown. Either there is no mailbox associated with this
550-name or you do not have authorization to see it.
550 5.1.1 User unknown

If a sender gets 'FAIL' he will probably try it again, in case of 'User
unknown' he won't try again. Is it possible to add some information why
it failed?

Thomas
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Re: Error responses from dbmail-lmtp [ In reply to ]

aaron at serendipity

Apr 22, 2004, 2:48 AM

Post #2 of 4 (434 views)

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There is framework in the dsn structure for providing a message to accompany
the specific codes. I wasn't sure how to go about adding the strings, though.
Gettext? Config file? Hard coded?
If hard coded English is sufficient, I can add them ASAP.

Aaron

Thomas Mueller <dbmail@tmueller.com> said:

>
> Hi,
>
> the information dbmail-lmtpd provides if an error occures is quite
> short:
>
> SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<tmm@test.example.com>:
> host localhost [127.0.0.1]: 550 Recipient <tmm@test.example.com> FAIL
>
> In that case I had no alias.
>
> Cyrus returns for example:
> 550-Mailbox unknown. Either there is no mailbox associated with this
> 550-name or you do not have authorization to see it.
> 550 5.1.1 User unknown
>
> If a sender gets 'FAIL' he will probably try it again, in case of 'User
> unknown' he won't try again. Is it possible to add some information why
> it failed?
>
>
> Thomas
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Re: Error responses from dbmail-lmtp [ In reply to ]

ilja at ic-s

Apr 22, 2004, 2:58 AM

Post #3 of 4 (432 views)

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On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 11:48, Aaron Stone wrote:
> There is framework in the dsn structure for providing a message to accompany
> the specific codes. I wasn't sure how to go about adding the strings, though.
> Gettext? Config file? Hard coded?
> If hard coded English is sufficient, I can add them ASAP.

I guess hardcoded English will do for now.

Ilja

Re: Error responses from dbmail-lmtp [ In reply to ]

dbmail at tmueller

Apr 22, 2004, 6:38 AM

Post #4 of 4 (434 views)

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Hi Ilja,

> > There is framework in the dsn structure for providing a message to accompany
> > the specific codes. I wasn't sure how to go about adding the strings, though.
> > Gettext? Config file? Hard coded?
> > If hard coded English is sufficient, I can add them ASAP.
>
> I guess hardcoded English will do for now.

Probably forever. I've never seen localized MTA error messages. That
would require to guess the language of the failed message. Hard job :-)

Thanks Aaron!

Thomas
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