On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Ross Boylan wrote:
> The manual says that for the lmtp transport (describing the timeout
> paramater):
>
> "The transport is aborted if the created process or Unix domain
> socket does not respond to LMTP commands or message input within this
> timeout"
>
> What exactly does "abort" mean here? In particular, does it mean the
> message will be retried later?
Yes. I will add a sentence that says that explicitly.
> Does it mean some other transport will be tried?
No. There is no mechanism in Exim for trying a different transport if
the one that is assigned by a router cannot do the job.
> I expect the behavior I want is the way exim operates, but I'd like to
> be sure.
You are in luck!
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