[Tickets #13697] Re: IMP is not showing SMTP error message

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Ticket URL: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/13697
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  Ticket             | 13697
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | IMP is not showing SMTP error message
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 6.2.3
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2014-12-01 15:58) wrote:

> All e-mail clients are able to print exact error message from SMTP  
> server and they are doing it because it's usefull.

Completely false.

If you are a non-English user, and you are a presented an error  
message in English, I fail to see how this makes things clearer to a  
user.  And that doesn't include those users who can't understand Roman  
text at all.

I was just in Beijing last month meeting with the people that  
implemented the controlling docs on e-mail address  
internationalization.  One of the things they didn't do when drafting  
is to allow SMTP error message to be internationalized (unlike POP3  
and IMAP) because those error messages are NEVER supposed to be  
displayed to a user (in other words: SMTP has no language support).

So this is not just some crazy idea of mine - its the underlying  
design of SMTP.