Re: [Exim] 550 errors

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Autor: Ron McKeating
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Para: Exim-Users (E-mail)
Assunto: Re: [Exim] 550 errors
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 10:16, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Ron McKeating wrote:
>
> > Hi all, I am a little confused as I thought when exim got a 550 error
> > when trying to deliver a message it treated it as a permanent error and
> > did not retry. So when I saw this message frozen in the queue and looked
> > in the message log I see.
> >
> > 2003-12-20 20:57:41 SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
> > TO:<YmSMypFP@???>: host horafeliz-com.mr.outblaze.com
> > [205.158.62.181]: 550 No thanks: Account unavailable. Possible Forgery.
> >
> > This goes on for several days, latest is
> > 2003-12-22 16:05:52 ymsmypfp@??? <YmSMypFP@???>
> > R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
> > TO:<YmSMypFP@???>: host horafeliz-com.mr.outblaze.com
> > [205.158.62.181]: 550 No thanks: Account unavailable. Possible Forgery.
> > *** Frozen (delivery error message)
>
> The second of those indicates that a bounce message is failing. I'm a
> bit surprised that it didn't freeze it the first time.


It probably did and I just failed to cut and paste it. But if the bounce
message fails why does exim keep trying to deliver it, I thought 550
meant permanent failure, surely exim should just chuck it away now ?

Ron

PS Merry Christmas, and all the best for the new year Phil.
--
Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
01509 222329