Re: [Exim] Retry behavior identical for "connection refused"…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ralf G. R. Bergs
CC: exim-users ML
Subject: Re: [Exim] Retry behavior identical for "connection refused" and "temporary error" status code?
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> >32.1 Retry rules for specific errors
>
> That's 31.2, and I already read that section.
>
> If I'm not blind, it only talks about "connection refused," but not about a
> temporary negative status code received.


That section lists those errors for which you can specify different
retry behaviour. If an error isn't listed there, it can be handled only
by the "*" feature.

"connection refused" is one of the special errors that can be recognized.
A temporary SMTP error response is not recognized specially.


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