Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

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Author: Dave Lugo
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Marc Perkel wrote:

>
> I know it's a permanent error. Here's the situation. I do front end spam
> filtering. What happens sometimes is Iset up a new customer and they
> point their MX to me and I clean the spam and forward on to them. It


I do that too at $dayjob.


> works for an hour and then their server realizes it's not the lowest MX
> anymore and starts bouncing everything I forward. I don't know about
> this unless something alerts me like the customer calling about reports
> of email bouncing.



I've _never_ seen this happen, and I've worked at my current employer
for ~7 years, and a lot of domains.

Perhaps the pre-cutover checklist you're working from is incomplete?

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