Author: Chris Edwards Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Using an external smtp server
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
| If you get a 5xx that means the message is bounced, period - your user has
| to resend it.
Not according to Novell it would seem...
Where a Novell Netmail server is trying to send mail to some domain, and
encounters a 5xx at RCPT time from the primary MX, it (netmail) merrily
proceeds to try the exact same delivery on the backup MX(es).
Madness !
Sorry offtopic.
Chris
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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service
