Hello, On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:40:31AM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:28:12AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > > > The classic example is errors indicating that the user's > > > mailbox quota is overrun. This is of course a temporary > > > error, not a permanent one, > > > > How do you know it is a temporary error? > > Because a future attempt with the same sender, receiver > and message data may succeed. RFC 2821: > > | A rule of thumb to determine > | whether a reply fits into the 4yz or the 5yz category (see below) > | is that replies are 4yz if they can be successful if repeated > | without any change in command form or in properties of the sender > | or receiver (that is, the command is repeated identically and the > | receiver does not put up a new implementation.) > > `Over quota' is no more a permanent error than `disk full' > or `load average too high'. It's certainly true that (a) > the error condition could persist indefinitely, and (b) if > it persists for too long the failing message should be > returned to its sender, but that's a decision for the > sender, not the recipient.
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