In message <20110606215604.gu8...@np305c2n2.ms.com>, Viktor wrote: >On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 02:46:46PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I'm still not clear on any of this. You said "With actions >> that are equivalent to DUNNO...". This begs the question. Which ones are >> those? > >The *obvious ones*. If an action is clearly a final OK that terminates further >rule checks, or a final REJECT, then it is not a DUNNO, otherwise it is.
Alright, so everything _except_ the following has the same effect as DUNNO vis a vis the response that will be sent back to the client, correct? |ACCEPT ACTIONS | OK | all-numerical | |REJECT ACTIONS | 4NN text | 5NN text | REJECT optional text... >> And just for clarity, you've said that the built-in default response is >> "OK" (which I guess is either some 2xx or 3xx response, depending on the >> current SMTP transaction context). May I infer from that that in the >> utter absence of any & all other applicable rules/lookups/results that >> a policy server which returned either a "WARN" or a "PREPEND" would >> result in a 2xx or 3xx going back to the client? > >Neither WARN nor PREPEND are final verdicts, so they are both "DUNNO". >Rule processing continues with a side-effect. I think I've got it now. Thanks Viktor.
