Re: draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-07 reply code erratum

Paul Hoffman / IMC <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Sep 1998 16:38:09 -0700

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At 04:02 PM 9/3/98 -0700, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
>The reply code 505 in the SMTP TLS draft should instead 530, to match
>the theory of reply codes.  The condition is related to security, not
>syntax.  530 is the code used for this condition in FTP, which shares a
>similar theory of reply codes.
>
>I will be reissuing the SMTP SASL draft to make the corresponding
>change.

I agree with this change.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium