Hi !!
> > Ok, but for this to work I need to know every host on the net that has a broken TLS which
> > I don't. I can check the logs every day (or make an automated process that do that) and then
> > mantain a list of that kind of hosts. But, maybe Exim smart enough in the furture to handle
> > this situation and automatically retry without TLS ?
>
> But should it? The host has offered TLS, Exim has tried to use it, and
> received a temporary error code. There is no indication that this is the
> result of a broken server. A temporary code means "try again later".
> Exim has no means of knowing exactly what is wrong (it might be the
> server is closing down for maintainance, for example.) I'm not sure that
> the right thing to do automatically is to send the message unencrypted
> in this circumstance.
Not the first time, it should retry the usual way until it reaches the
maximum retry times, that's when it should (in my opinion) try without TLS.
> If Exim gets a permanent error code (5xx) from a server, however, it
> will try to send the message in clear. This is all documented in section
> 38.2.
Maybe you can think that a temporary error that repeats forever is just
a permanent error.
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