Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers (2 part)

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Συντάκτης: Philip Hazel
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Προς: David Saez Padros
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers (2 part)
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, David Saez Padros wrote:

> ok, but what about +ignore_unknown ? dns_again_means_nonexist is ok
> for a workaround but not for every day use (as i have to detect which
> domains have problems and manually add them to that list). It's
> +ignore_unknown suposed to make the condition not to defer whith this
> kind of errors ? anyway it a lookup that defers could be also treated
> as a unknown result ...


dns_means_nonexist makes a temporary error look like "not found".
+ignore_unknown causes "not found" to be ignored, so these two options
do interact.

But +ignore_unknown on its own won't stop a defer because when a DNS
lookup gives a temporary error, you don't know if the host is unknown or
not. Consider a major network failure that causes lots of nameservers
are unreachable...





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