I'm not asking to change the SMTP specification OR to implement new features
in exim. I'd just like to know if we (just our little corner of the exim
user community) can choose to treat 550's as temporary failures, because in
our configuration with our ISP that's exactly what they are; temporary. When
a message receives a 550, if I immediately send it again it is always
accepted.
I had hoped some type of retry rule (or similar) could deal with this
situation. From what I've read in the docs, it appears the retry rules deal
with connection failures and other transient errors only.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Radcliffe [mailto:pir@pir.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 4:03 PM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] How to treat SMTP error 550 (Relaying denied) as a
> temporary fail...
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> 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.
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> If a server malfunctions, that is their problem.
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> This would completely break the specification for SMTP and would be
> a gross piece of brokeness in my opinion.
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> Fix the problem, not the symptoms.
>
> P.
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