[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> (2014-12-20 13:49) wrote:

> Postfix, for example, is allowing SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR to set custom  
> error messages for showing to USERS.

This is not intended for display to end-users.  It's intended as a  
human-readable message to the calling client, since SMTP clients are  
not necessarily MUAs.  Calling clients can be things like relaying  
MTAs, for example.

SMTP error messages are not designed to be automatically displayed to  
the user.  This is not my opinion; this is the way it is designed.   
See, e.g., PHP Mailer which does the same thing we do: display  
translated error messages based on the error response codes:  
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/master/language