Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

--On 6 December 2006 14:34:27 +0100 Jakob Hirsch <jh@???> wrote:

> Quoting Chris Lightfoot:
>
>> Yes, it would be nice if a 5xx message could always be
>> taken to mean ``there is no point in retrying
>> automatically'', but that's not a description of the world
>> as it currently is.
>
> True, but what do you thing Exim should do about it?
> Treat 5xx always as temporary? I doubt that's what you want.
> Treat 5xx as temporary whenever the word "quota" appears in the reply
> text? This is feasible, but do we really want to start interpreting
> reply texts which are explicitely intended to be read by humans (and do
> not necessarily contain useful information)? I doubt that, too.

You'd be looking for a 5.2.2 enhanced error code. But, if the remote system
is really saying don't retry email for people who are over quota, then
maybe they have good reasons for doing that.

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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex