[Zope-dev] What to do when one mail recipient fails out of several?

[Andreas Jung]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Hamilton" <matth@netsight.co.uk>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 09:33
Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] What to do when one mail recipient fails out of
several?


>
> This is not actually possible with SMTP.  Various MTAs do have the
> functionality to let you know if they can route to that domain, but that
> still does not guarentee that the username will be accepted, or that the
> MX host for that domain is actually accepting mail.
>


That's the point. The feature is highly dependant of the underlying mail
system
and it makes less sense to support this issue in the Zope core. You can
always
subclass Mailhost and write a customized version and publish it but I
believe
it is not very suitable for the Zope core distribution.

Andreas