Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

On 06/12/06, Drav Sloan <holborn-exim@???> wrote:
> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > > In the real world one frequently encounters sites which
> > > issue permanent failures for over-quota conditions *even
> > > though* retries shortly afterwards would succeed.
> >
> > Tough luck. If the recieving MTA issues a 5xx then you bounce the
> > message back to the sender and it's the sender's job to decide whether
> > to resend or not and _not_ some intermediate MTA that thinks it knows
> > the destination site better than the administrators do.
>
> I couldn't agree more. 5xx errors are _permanent_. Whether you (the
> admin of a sending MTA) disagrees is totally irrelevant.

Not in Marc's case - he has a specific arrangement with the owner of
the troublesome MTA. In effect, the destination MTA has moved within
Marc's admistrative domain, although he's not able to affect its
configuration.

In this narrow case, he has a valid requirement.

Peter

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