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Message of Sat,
22 Jan 1994 15:42:03 CST from LISTSERV list owners' forum
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>the SMTP process on Krypton rejected it
>with:
> 553 header line too long
>My guess is that Krypton can't handle the long RFC822 header lines
>that are now available. LMail translated this error report into an
>Error Code 3 (permanent delivery failure). LISTSERV interprets Error
>Code 3 to mean unsubscribe this userid.
Here is the official meaning of 553 from RFC821:
553 Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed
[E.g., mailbox syntax incorrect]
This code is to be used only after RCPT TO: or VRFY, when an invalid
mailbox is specified. The correct code for an error of the type "header
too long" after the DATA instruction is 554, so this is probably a typo.
LMail translates 554 to a soft error and 553 to a hard one.
This being said, deleting the user was the correct thing to do. If his
mail system can't handle 'Received:' fields of two lines, you aren't
going to get much mail to his mailbox anyway.
Eric
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