On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:40:14PM -0400, Bryan Ischo wrote:

> The people who read bounce mails are typically those who sent it, which,
> 99% of the time, is a person who is completely unfamiliar with mail
> systems.

Your actually quite right.

> To them, something like, "You cannot sent mail to that site using this
> mail server", or somesuch, would be less confusing and more personable.

Actually we use vpopmail's roaming users. So if they dont check their email
beforehand they cannot use us as a relay. We get many calls from angry
customers and employees because all they see in the current error message is 
"You cant send mail."

> On the flip side, as soon as the word "rcpthosts" leaves a user's
> mouth, I am pretty sure I know exactly what the problem is.

Yeah, but in my opinion I dont want to hear of those calls in the first
place. =)

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Erich Zigler                                   Sr. System Administrator

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