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Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:22:30 -0400
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:48:44 EDT, William Herrin said:
Correction: It's a standard way to denote that "this mail is a bounce report."
Correction to your correction: What the RFC actually says: 4.5.5. Messages with a Null Reverse-Path There are several types of notification messages that are required by existing and proposed Standards to be sent with a null reverse-path, namely non-delivery notifications as discussed in Section 3.7, other kinds of Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs, RFC 3461 [32]), and Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs, RFC 3798 [37]). All of these kinds of messages are notifications about a previous message, and they are sent to the reverse-path of the previous mail message. (If the delivery of such a notification message fails, that usually indicates a problem with the mail system of the host to which the notification message is addressed. For this reason, at some hosts the MTA is set up to forward such failed notification messages to someone who is able to fix problems with the mail system, e.g., via the postmaster alias.) It's *not* just "bounce reports" (in particular, DSNs and MDNs are not non-delivery (bounce) messages in the sense of section 3.7, and both can be generated in response to *successful* deliveries). generated for *successful* deliveries).
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- SORBS contact, (continued)
- SORBS contact Brian R. Watters (Jul 28)
- Re: SORBS contact Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 28)
- Re: SORBS contact Brian R. Watters (Jul 28)
- Re: SORBS contact William Pitcock (Jul 28)
- Re: SORBS contact Dorn Hetzel (Jul 28)
- Re: SORBS contact PC (Jul 28)
- Re: SORBS contact Barry Shein (Jul 28)
- SORBS contact Brian R. Watters (Jul 28)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Brian R. Watters (Jul 28)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 28)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact William Herrin (Jul 29)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 29)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact William Herrin (Jul 30)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 30)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact William Herrin (Jul 30)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 31)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact William Herrin (Jul 31)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 31)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Michelle Sullivan (Jul 29)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 30)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Landon Stewart (Jul 29)
- Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Michelle Sullivan (Jul 29)