Autor: Peter Bowyer Datum: To: exim users Betreff: Re: [exim] Unroutable Address Question
On 13/03/07, Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote: >
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> Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On 13/03/07, Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote: > If I'm trying to email someone and all their name servers are down, will I > get an unroutable address rather than having it wait and retry? > No - your circumstance will provoke a temporary failure. >
> I would have thought that but that's not what's happening. I'm wondering why
> I'm getting unroutable address due to DNS problems?
Depends what the nature of the problem is, I guess - if the
autoritative severs for the domain are returning NXDOMAIN somewhere,
you could get unrouteable status - what's the domain name in
question?