Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:41:58AM +0000, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 11:02 +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > no, it's a temporary error, because a future attempt with
> > the same sender/receiver/data stands a reasonable chance
> > of success without there being any oeprator intervention
> > -- see the description in the RFC.
>
> No remote user, operator, admin etc in their right mind can make the
> assumption that an over-quota condition will be fixed without operator
> invention.

Your definition of `operator' here includes the remote
user whose mailbox is full, but it shouldn't; a situation
which will be corrected in due course by the normal action
of the receiving user reading their mail isn't usefully
described as `requiring operator intervention' in this
context. Under normal circumstances a retry will
(eventually) succeed, because the user will reduce their
disk usage to get back under quota.

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