On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Adam Newby wrote:
> > So you want never to bounce messages? Even if you accidentally send one
> > to wronglocalpart@??? ?? THAT is the problem...
>
> We would rather have this happen, and have Exim (a piece of software) do
> some unnecessary work,
Sure, there's no problem with sofware doing unnecessary work - that's
what it's for :-) but the point is that you aren't telling your sender
immediately when a genuinely bad address is used. That, IMHO, is wrong.
> NB: we're seeing quite a few intermittent 'unrouteable mail domain' errors
> - is this normal, in your experience?
Not at all normal. Vanishingly rare, in fact.
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