On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> > True, but nevertheless, I still don't think it will behave as you
> > suggested. At a host level, Exim will believe that host A is ok, but
> > host B is permanently dead. So it will stop trying host B. But that
> > won't make it bounce the recipient until it (the recipient) times out.
> >
> > At least, that's what is supposed to happen. There are always bugs...
>
> well, it happened here.
Aarrgghh!!
> the servers A and B were Postfix, though.
Phew!!
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