On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:04:30PM +0200, Peter Rindfuss wrote:
> Recently, one of our users sent a message to an address for which the
> DNS returned SERVFAIL at that particular moment. Exim returned an
> error status "451 Temporary local problem - please try later", and
> the message was not not queued. Is there a way to make Exim queue the
> message and use the normal retry rules? In the case mentioned the DNS
> was repaired soon, so why make the user send the message again - this
> should be Exim's task.
> BTW, "local problem" did not make much sense to me, since it
> definitely was a remote problem.
If you're relaying for local users, why have you got recipient verification
enabled, and what do you expect it to do in this case, given that you've
obviously configured recipient verification.
The reason it's a "local" problem, is that the local machine can't complete
the verification.
MBM
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Matthew Byng-Maddick <mbm@???> http://colondot.net/
