Author: Ian Eiloart Date: To: Chris Lightfoot, Graeme Fowler CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors
--On 6 December 2006 12:26:12 +0000 Chris Lightfoot <chris@???>
wrote:
>
> 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.
But, we're not describing normal circumstances. We're describing a
situation where the user has been given a period of time to do this, and
hasn't. Perhaps they've died.
