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<div>At 9:57 AM -0700 9/19/07, Ed Kasky wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>At 11:13 AM -0400 9/19/07, you wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I jsut got this message on my mail
server from one of my users. I'm<br>
not sure about it and I can only find two hits on google, and they
are<br>
in french.<br>
<br>
451-The server has reached its limit for processing requests from
your host<br>
<br>
Anyone know what this means? The details of the email are that
there<br>
is a user on vacation, and she is forwarding her email to her
personal<br>
email address, and this is what we are getting back.</blockquote>
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The basic smtp message is a hard reject and means:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-3" color="#000000">451
Requested action aborted: local error in
processing</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>...for whatever reason. The server
appears to only allow so many connections from a single host.
Probably and anti-spam/anti-relay setting.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>From RFC1893 on<font size="-3"
color="#000000"> Enhanced Mail System Status Codes</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-3"
color="#000000">X.4.5 Mail system congestion<br>
<br>
The mail
system was unable to deliver the message because<br>
the mail
system was congested. This is useful only as a</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-3"
color="#000000"
> persistent
transient error.</font></blockquote>
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<div>Uhh, no. He gave only the RFC 2821 SMTP Reply Code of 451,
but not any RFC 1893 Enhanced Status Code ending in X.4.5. More
of the bounce might help.</div>
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