He's getting the 5xx code from the RELAY due to an intermittent problem
with their POP/SMTP relay auth, not from the end destination..
Since no on else seems to have answered, I will volunteer that AFAIK,
there is no way to tell exim to treat the 5xx codes as temporary (at
least, not without changing the code, which is possible if you can hack
C, since exim is opensource..)
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> In this case an idea would be to disable completely bouncing,
> since you exim in effect act as a satellite you could just feed
> anything to your ISP server, than just wait and hope.
> If a 550 arise you could safely retry later (only exception would be
> an address to that server, since it would be a true 5xx error)
>
> On 22 Nov 2000, at 16:28, David Searles wrote:
>
> > While not "tied" to the ISP, we've otherwise had very good luck with them.
> > We must use their relay because places like AOL and other huge mail
> > recipients will not accept inbound SMTP from dynamically assigned IP
> > addresses (like when we have exim connect directly to the recipient). In
> > order to be able to send mail to everyone in the world and not have it
> > bounce, we must relay thru the ISPs mailer.
> >
> > These 550's occur fairly rarely (once out of 750-1000 outbound mails;
> > probably some timing window in their "POP before SMTP" implementation).
> > Since the failures occur so rarely, I'd like exim to automatically retry the
> > message as it will almost certainly be accepted the next attempt.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Greg A. Woods [mailto:woods@weird.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 2:49 PM
> > > To: Exim Users Mailing List
> > > Subject: Re: [Exim] How to treat SMTP error 550 (Relaying denied) as a
> > > temporary failure
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [ On Wednesday, November 22, 2000 at 11:14:12 (-0500), David
> > > Searles wrote: ]
> > > > Subject: [Exim] How to treat SMTP error 550 (Relaying denied)
> > > as a temporary
> > > failure
> > > >
> > > > Because Exim correctly processes these as permanent errors, my users get
> > > > delivery failure notifications and I must try to explain the problem and
> > > > then ask them to re-send the messages (pretty embarassing!).
> > >
> > > You didn't say very much about why you're tied to this current ISP, or
> > > why you've got to use their authorised outbound relay How about changing
> > > ISPs and finding one that gives you raw IP access so that you don't have
> > > to use an authorised out-bound relay?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Greg A. Woods
> > >
> > > +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@???> <robohack!woods>
> > > Planix, Inc. <woods@???>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@???>
> > >
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> Leonardo Boselli
> nucleo informatico e telematico
> Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
> Universita` di Firenze
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