Author: Adam Funk Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Is there a way to automatically resend email through
different gateway?
On Sunday 05 February 2006 21:21, Marc Sherman wrote:
> What you and Daevid have repeatedly been told on this list is that that
> is _not_ at all a reliable way to operate a mail server. You should
> unconditionally send all your mail through a smarthost. You cannot
> rely on all servers which will be ignoring you because of the blacklist
> to reject your mail in a way that you can detect, either automatically
> (as you propose) or manually (as you currently do). Many servers will
> simply drop your traffic silently, or quarantine it.
Other people might configure their servers to behave that way for any kind
of condition, not just based on the dynamic IP blacklist. Isn't
rejecting at SMTP the only *correct* way to block using a blacklist?
