On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, John Rowe wrote:
> Before anything else, thanks to the exim authors for all their hard
> work.
Thank you.
> We had a problem yesterday when a disk failed and exim started rejecting
> all mail with a "Do not retry" (5xx) error code. The text indicated a
> "no such user" error. This stopped our upstream relay from trying our
> alternate host.
I'm a bit surprised that it gave 5xx rather than 4xx. It would be useful
to be able to find out why it did that. I have made a note to eyeball
the code at some point (but probably not before 4.61) to see if I can
see the reason. I supposse a simulated getpwnam failure might show it.
> I really want a total disk failure to cause mail to go to my alternate
> host not just bounce!
Perfectly reasonable!
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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