Re: [exim] broken ESMTP hosts

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Nathan Ollerenshaw
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] broken ESMTP hosts
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote:

> Is there any way for exim to try SMTP after ESMTP fails for any reason? As I
> understand it, it will only fall back to SMTP if ESMTP is explicitly rejected.


That is correct, but if you think about it, any other failure is going
to be a timeout or a connection drop or network problem, so falling back
is not going to be possible.

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