Re: [Exim] Unexpected callout failure

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Author: Marc MERLIN
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To: Patrice Fournier
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Unexpected callout failure
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:06:10PM -0500, Patrice Fournier wrote:
> > Are you doing postmaster and/or random address callout?
>
> Yes, I do random address callout, (and you can see the error the server
> sent to that test in the error log [550
> <mail.sabius.net-1048274167-testing@???>: Recipient address
> rejected: User unknown])


Yeah, duh, my bad.

> > Unfortunately, some sites do not implement RSET correctly, hence the failure
> > you see.
>
> If it was, the response wouldn't probably be the one logged above. (and that
> same server would have behaved like that only once, as no other such line
> appears in my logs).


I think you are correct.
It looks like random callout fails like it should, and exim takes that as a
failure instead of success.

Marc
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