Re: [exim] Help needed on hosts_require_tls

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Help needed on hosts_require_tls
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Matthias Menk wrote:
>
> > The problem is that if someone sets the header to just allow delivery
> > over TLS and the corresponding host doesn't support TLS I get an
> > error "a TLS session is required for XXXX, but the server did not offer
> > TLS support". Which is fine so far. BUT as soon as someone then wants to
> > send a mail NOT using TLS, the host is still waiting for the next retry.
>
> The retry logic was invented a very long time ago, before TLS support
> was even contemplated. It is not flexible enough for this.


How about a tls_failed retry error code, like the existing auth_failed
error code?

Tony.
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