On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 09:27 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.
Excellent.
>
> > 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!
Thank you for the info, and for exim.
Ross
