On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 06:10:13PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Gilles Chehade <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > We're probably too conservative with mda errors but I would rather see
> > tempfail/permfail solved by sysexits(3) than by substring of the error
> > message :-/
> >
> 
> Actually, I was thinking after I sent this that exit 555, or some
> number, would be far better than an arbitrary prefix string. This way
> we don't invent new standards and behaviors. That's also what exit
> codes are for. I'll re code this and send a new patch.
> 

Please don't do that !

We have spent considerable time removing "custom" SMTP codes from the
code base. Whatever you're trying to achieve can be achieved without
resorting to tricks like that, I'm 100% sure about that.


> > Can you explain what use-case you're trying to solve ?
> 
> Rejecting certain types of messages (sort of spam but not quite)
> without even accepting the envelopes to begin with. The "accept / send
> error response" dance is too heavy.
> 

I don't quite get that.
At the MDA level, you're already far beyond the ruleset matching.


-- 
Gilles Chehade

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