On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Phil Chambers wrote:
> I am using callout in a RCPT ACL for recipients on some local
> machines. I found that I was getting frozen non-delivery messages for
> one particular user on one of those machines because messages where
> not being rejected by the callout but were being rejected for the
> actual attempt to send. I have eventually worked out that the callout
> is not happening because the hints database says the address is OK!
I presume we are talking 4.12 here, where caching of callouts is
implemented.
> How long will the data in the hints database remain valid? Section
> 42.6
The manual has not been updated since 4.10. The information about
callout caching is in the doc/NewStuff file. There are options for
specifying how long the cache data can be kept.
> Is it possible that when an outgoing RCPT fails the hints record is removed?
That is an interesting point. Thanks for the idea.
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