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bug#34177: smtpmail.el aborts on transient errors
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Brian Sniffen |
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bug#34177: smtpmail.el aborts on transient errors |
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Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:09:08 -0500 |
smtpmail.el treats all return codes over 400 as errors, and aborts. But RFC
821 and successors call the 400-series “transient” errors and suggest retrying
immediately. Some mail servers, including current MS Exchange, use 400-series
errors for load limiting. The user can just repeat C-c C-c until the mail goes
through... or Emacs SMTPmail could loop until the server accepts it.
Retrying is a little tricky in the case of multipart commands like LOGIN, but
in general it’s safe to loop for seconds on any command.
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Brian Sniffen
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