Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:34:49AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
>
> > no. It's up to the sending MTA to decide whether
> > repeatedly seeing a transient error means that they should
> > abandon delivery.
>
> Please define "the sending MTA".

In this case, the one which holds responsibility for the
message which it is trying to transfer to the MTA which is
reporting an over-quota error as permanent.

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