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Author: Peter Radcliffe
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] How to treat SMTP error 550 (Relaying denied) as a temporary fail...
JDBitters@??? probably said:
> It is not a question of whether exim should be notified of the rejection.
> The question is should exim be able to resend the rejected message two or
> three times before bouncing it back to the original server?
>
> For example, this morning's rejection resulted from a malfunctioning
> receiving server. Once we were notified that it had been fixed the senders
> were advised to resend the rejected messages. What is sought is a way for
> exim to do it automatically and bounce back only as a last resort.


If a server malfunctions, that is their problem.

This would completely break the specification for SMTP and would be
a gross piece of brokeness in my opinion.

Fix the problem, not the symptoms.

P.

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