Re: Possible minor bug in tmda-ofmipd

Ole Wolf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.tmda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
> Oh, the exception handling code is totally required for Thunderbird at
> least - if Thunderbird sees a dropped connection instead of an SMTP
> response message, it'll think the message was successfully handed off to
> the SMTP server, when in fact it wasn't, so the message never gets sent,
> and the user never receives any notification!
>   

Well, I'll be. I tried to send an ill-formed email address from Thunderbird via a regular SMTP host, and it appears I'm not getting a delivery error. (I tried to send an ill-formed email in an SMTP talk with the server, and you're right, it drops the connection.)

I realize this is somewhat off-topic, but does this mean Thunderbird has an off-standard way of interacting with SMTP servers? Maybe even one that qualifies as a Thunderbird bug?

--Ole
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