Re: [EXIM] What happens when rejected?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Christian Dysthe
CC: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] What happens when rejected?
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:

> What happens when exim rejects an email? Is it simply sent back to the sender,
> or?


If by "rejects" you mean "does not accept an SMTP transaction from
another host" then what happens depends entirely on how the sending MTA
behaves. A well-behaved MTA *should* return the message to the sender,
but some of them keep trying to send it for some kinds of error. See
several comments in the manual about this.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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