On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> host foo __stops responding__ after the __last rcpt to__ and i want to
> __force a delivery__ to all the __remaining__ recipients __except for
> <recipient4@foo>__ to check if there's a problem with that recipient
> (remote site possibly checking its existence) or not.
If Exim is working as designed, if there is a timeout after RCPT it
should be interpreted as a "recipient error" (see chapter 48, "SMTP
processing"). In this case, the recipient should be delayed. The next
time Exim tries to deliver the message, it should omit that recipient
and try all the others. Only when a certain retry time has passed will
it try the failing recipient again.
In other words, it is supposed to do what you want automatically. There
is no way to force it to skip any particular recipient, except by
manually inserting data into the retry database, and that ain't easy.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
