Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: Exim, Users Subject: 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.
