An old host-refusal reply is not a refund.

Answer An old host-refusal reply is not a refund. RFC 1846 is an older description of an SMTP 521 reply, a host saying it does not accept mail. Do not present 1846 as the current text. The document is RFC 1846, titled SMTP 521 Reply Code. A host that will not accept mail has refused a transfer. The refusal does not move the terms of your order, and it does not return what you paid. The refund lives on the order, or it does not live anywhere.

The note that started this: RFC 1846, SMTP 521 Reply Code, RFC 1846.

Buyers get a reply pasted into a chat and are told the story is over. The story is over only if the order said a refusal ends it with a remedy you accept. Read how safe solo ads sellers are supposed to behave when the send does not happen. They name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line before the refusal exists. A code from an old document is not a stand-in for that line.

That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in. A buyer still has to name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line on the order. The reply code names a host that does not accept mail. It does not name your list. A seller who forwards the reply and calls the order complete has stopped at the machine and skipped you.

What is the old 521 reply?

RFC 1846 is an older description of an SMTP 521 reply, a host saying it does not accept mail. Do not present 1846 as the current text. The document is RFC 1846, titled SMTP 521 Reply Code.

Older matters. Say it out loud if a seller treats the page as current law. An old description of a host refusing mail is a piece of mail history. Your purchase is a present agreement. The agreement has to say what happens when a host will not take the message. If it does not say, you are negotiating after the failure, which is when sellers get vague.

Do not collect other codes and build a private law. You were handed one old description. Use it only as a label for a refusal, and only with the warning that it is not the current text. Then go back to the order and write the refund line in plain words.

• The order states the remedy when a host will not accept mail.
• RFC 1846 is not described as the current text.
• The list, the sending domain, and the refund line are named.
• A pasted reply is not treated as the end of the order.

Is a host refusal the same as a refund?

No. An old host-refusal reply is not a refund. The reply is a host saying it does not accept mail. The refund is the line you and the seller wrote on the order.

A refusal is a machine saying no to a transfer. A refund is a person making you whole under the words you both signed up for. Those speakers are different, and they do not automatically agree. A seller can show you the refusal and still owe the remedy. A buyer can see the refusal and still have to point at the line that defines the remedy.

If you are the seller, do not send the reply as if it were a receipt. Tell the buyer what you will do under the refund line, in the same words the order used. If the order has no refund line, you are about to invent one under pressure. Inventing it earlier is the job. Buyers should walk away from a seller who says the remedy will be obvious later. Obvious later is how a refusal gets mislabeled as a closed sale.

Should I treat RFC 1846 as the current rule?

No. Do not present 1846 as the current text. An older description is not the current rule, and it is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

An old page cannot prove a stranger asked for your offer. A host refusing mail is not a sign the list was real, and it is not a sign the list was fake. It is a host saying it does not accept mail. Leave the reputation argument out of it. Ask the questions the document cannot answer: which list, which sending domain, and what the refund line says. If those are blank, the age of the document does not matter, because you do not have an order yet.

Affiliate buyers hit the same wall. A refusal is not a soft way of saying the offer was seen. It is the opposite of a completed send. When you sort solo ads for affiliate marketing, sort for a letter that goes out under a named domain, with a refund if the host will not take it. An old host-refusal reply is not that refund. Do not present 1846 as the current text, and do not pay as if a refusal were the product you ordered.