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I am sometimes irked by the poverty of content of some error messages (including mine), but I consider that those related to e-mails deserve a special mention.
Here is a cool example of the info you get in return when sending a mail with several attachments of different kinds. The messages are provided in two separate files.
The best of the story is that you are not just bombarded with all that useless crap, you also don't get any clue about the things that really matter to you: 1) what file or file extension was blocked ? 2) was the message delivered at all ?
Do you share my outrage ?
Details.txt
Reporting-MTA: dns; sif.is.somename.be
Received-From-MTA: DNS; ip-08-326-426-352.dsl.somename.be
Arrival-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:26:52 +0100
Final-Recipient: RFC822; somename.somename@somename.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; smtp01.somename.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 554 rejecting banned file attachment
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:28:28 +0100
Untitled attachment 00048.txt
Return-Path: <somename.somename@somename.be>
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=scarlet.be;
s=somename; t=1783485265;
bh=pNZZ7y37RaEuaSunmiNVkAmAdBTYyaaW2I5mIFbfs+E=;
h=From:To:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:
MIME-Version:Content-Type;
b=oghqdfjImg566ffDDEcpulB98NArEpkAsm/BpWbn7cgmOl9VpHggkfRc7NCtIy9AfcR6
oyk91sGuW/GxZtPRbYU6ixqRhHYkrb32feRLne3i7tvxha1plWO0YkvL+uLG+zU1vM
l6li491upcYcBRKPhr/z612zl3WDzDns0hJwXywE=
Received: from somename (ip-98-658-223-501.dsl.somename.be [56.665.298.778])
(authenticated bits=0)
by sif.is.somename.be (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAB22HQrtD0190
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT)
for <somename.somename@somename.com>; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:26:52 +0100
X-Scarlet: u=tsj02451 d=1352654812 c=80.236.246.122
From: "somename.somename" <somename.somename@somename.be>
To: "somename.somename" <somename.somename@somename.com>
References:
In-Reply-To:
Subject: FW: Dongle support
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:26:51 +0100
Message-ID: <001336cdc03137cdaf$bd658dd0$70$@somename.be>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0019_01CBD03A.1F08F7D0"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0
Thread-Index: Ac3AKyA2kDFD36rrfj556gg5GfQCdhwABkaOg
Content-Language: en-us
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 111231-0, 12/31/2011), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
X-DCC-somename.be-Metrics: sif 20001; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1
X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.1-exp at sif
X-Virus-Status: Clean
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Not really.
The error is pretty obvious. One, or more, of your attachments is not allowed. This is probably an .exe or some script file, i.e. anything exectuable.
When you get an error like this, your message is just about never delivered.
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What about an error message like The attached file 'Attach.exe' was rejected for security reasons. The message was not delivered. ? Would that be too much human-like ?
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Too bad machines aren't like humans now, huh?
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