On 15/11/2020 09:52, Nick Tait wrote:
> On 14/11/20 7:30 am, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I think what the OP is asking here is, can Yahoo/Oath be compelled to
>> provide a more useful failure message relaying the informative response
>> provided by OP's Postfix instance.
>>
>> And the answer to that, unfortunately, is no.
>
> But by the look of things the bounce notification generated by Yahoo
> contains the first part of the original reject message - i.e. the bold
> part of the red text below:
>
> Nov 13 02:07:52 myserver postfix/smtpd[27706]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT
> from sonic302-23.consmr.mail.gq1.yahoo.com[98.137.68.149]: *554 5.7.1 Service 
> unavailable*; Client host [98.137.68.149] blocked
> using cbl.abuseat.org; Blocked - see
> http://www.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=98.137.68.149;
> from=<per...@sbcglobal.net> to=<m...@myserver.com> proto=ESMTP
> helo=<sbcglobal.net>
>
> So presumably if you can somehow change the reject message and perhaps
> remove the semicolons, then maybe Yahoo will provide the entire
> message in the bounce notification? Which comes back to the original
> question about whether this message can be customised? But I suspect
> the answer to that question is still no?
>
> Nick.
>
The reject message used by smtpd when rejecting due to an rbl based
restriction can be customized:

http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#default_rbl_reply

That changes the default, so applies to any rbl based restriction. The
message can be customized for only specific rbls with rbl_reply_maps.

John

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