Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!don.provan@CMU-CS-A.ARPA From: don.provan@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: re: smtp, errors, and delivery Message-ID: <06Mar84.175702.DP0N@CMU-CS-A> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 17:57:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.386 Posted: Tue Mar 6 17:57:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 06:45:03 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 8 To: header-people@mit-mc what we need is two new types of error messages. one to indicate that the mail may be delivered but errors cannot be returned and another to indicate that the mail will be delivered but there was still something bogus about the return path. this general discussion is fine, but the times i've had mail rejected because of what the server thought was a syntax error in the return path, the mail would have been delivered immediately by the server, so there was no danger of the return path being used, anyway.