Caution! Don't attempt the Postini to Google Apps transition

Sun Sep 8 21:49:08 UTC 2013

On 9/8/2013 2:38 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> Hi Matthew
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> Interesting experience.
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>> first into a black hole, and then bouncing with permanent failures.
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> What you mean by permanent failures? Can you share error you saw in bounce
> report?

> RFC 2505               Anti-Spam Recommendations           February 1999
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> 1.6. SMTP Return Codes
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>    SMTP has several classes of Return Codes, see [1] for a discussion:
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>    o   5xx
>        is a Permanent Negative Completion reply (Fatal Error) and
>        results in the mail transfer being terminated and the mail
>        returned to sender.

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                                         learn from their mistakes.
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