Questionable DSNs

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Alessandro Vesely wrote:

> Frank Ellermann wrote:
> > Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> >> I was considering posting an auto-note to postmaster in case
> >> of PermError in addition to a DSN, but PermError from macros
> >> would discourage that.
> 
> While the DSN is questionable as usual, an auto-note to postmaster in 
> case of PermError should trigger the desired effect.

The scenario is that the SPF result is PermError, but various heuristics
have determined that the mail should be accepted.  For example, 
a mechanism of A:1.2.3.4 results in a "bestguess" result of "pass"
when coming from 1.2.3.4.  In these cases, the sender still needs to
fix their SPF record - so I send a DSN while accepting the email.

But the end user never reads the DSN, often interpreting it as a rejection,
hence the idea to send something to postmaster instead.

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