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Re: switching from exim to postfix



On Wed, 02 May 2012, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> (slightly off-topic)
> Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
> > No, bouncing mail when it can't be properly delivered is much better than 
> > violating RFCs.
> > 
> > Mail that is bounced with a human readable message describing the real cause 
> > of the problem can then be re-sent once the problem is fixed.
> 
> You mean a message readable by a human even when it happens that this
> human is a non English-speaking non-geek person? :-)

Well, FWIW postfix allows you to override all MTA notifications, not just
bounce messages, but the full set.  We do that at work.

> All MTA bounce messages are just plain unreadable crap for the average
> human on Earth, I'm afraid. For some of them, it's even worse than
> Vogon poetry.

IME this is true even after you translate it to the local language and dumb
it down a whole lot.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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