On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, xmath wrote:
> If it doesn't eat up too much time, I can do some testing for you on 10.2
Thanks for the offer, but I guess you've done that already!
> BTW, I've now configured exim to send all non-local mail to a specific
> server. I was curious if I could make mail bound right away if it
> can't be delivered (without retrying) so I removed the retries-string,
> leaving just the two asterisks. I pulled out my connection and sent an
> email. I saw this in the log:
>
> 2002-09-04 19:50:27 H1XDK3-00056G-00 == matthijs@??? R=relay_mail defer (-1): lookup of host "mail.cds.nl" failed in relay_mail router
> 2002-09-04 19:50:27 H1XDK3-00056G-00 ** matthijs@???: retry timeout exceeded
> 2002-09-04 19:50:27 H1XDK3-00056G-00 matthijs@???: error ignored
> 2002-09-04 19:50:27 H1XDK3-00056G-00 Completed
>
> Ehh... error ignored? Why did it ignore the error and discard my
> email? where's the bounce?
What address was the sender of that message? "Error ignored" means it
was a bounce message.
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