Author: David Woodhouse Date: To: Alan J. Flavell CC: Exim users list Subject: Re: [Exim] Sender verification... long-term temporary failures
should be considered permanent.
Please don't drop me from the recipients when replying. It's very rude
-- especially when I said I was on dialup at the moment, so you know
perfectly well I'm likely to be checking only my inbox and only rarely
the mailing list folders.
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:22 +0000, Alan J. Flavell wrote: > You'll see that the cached results of callout are either 'accept' or
> 'reject' - never 'temporary fail'. Unless someone's looked into the
> code and knows something that isn't shown here, I don't think you will
> find the specific data that you need for running your plan. Sorry...
I know that Exim doesn't currently do this; that's why I asked for it.
I wasn't asking you to read the manual for me, but thanks anyway :)
> BTW, don't entirely forget that a bona fide sender _could_ be out of
> contact for several days in adverse situations.
This is true. As could a bona fide recipient, whose mail will also
bounce if sits on the queue for too long. That's an acceptable loss.
