On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 02:47:46PM -0500, Melanie Lampert wrote: > but then how come it does not retry to send mail to the domains that it
> considers unresolvable? The messages bounce right away, so I know it did
> not retry resending them...
As I understand it, there are two cases in what you're calling 'unresolvable':
1) a dns server indicates the domain does not exist. In this case, exim
will give up immediately.
2) a dns sever indicates it can't answer the question of whether the
domain exists right now. Exim will retry.
I believe philip hazel said much the same thing earlier on this thread.