Re: [exim] fatal errors in BSMTP transport

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:11:47PM +0100, Paul Dekkers wrote:
> >But what is still confusing me, is that the mail don't get delivered.
> >When spamc gets a timeout, that should be a 4xx error (which is the
> >case). But why does the message bounce?
>
> ... good question :-)
>
> (Hmm, the exim -bS created the 4xx error, but the pipe / transport was a fatal error, I believe?)

Of course! Since the mail is already accepted, the mailserver cannot
reject the mail, but instead has to bounce it.
Would be nice, if exim itself could try to redeliver the mail through
the transport after such errors. Is that possible in any way?