Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

Renaud Allard wrote:
>
>
> Marc Haber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem with a firewall that has a transparent SMTP proxy
>> which returns a 550 error on initial connection if the "real" server
>> that the exim behind the proxy refuses connections.
>>
>> This, of course, causes the exim behind the proxy to immediately
>> bounce the message instead of trying the next MX or to queue the
>> message.
>>
>> While this is being sorted out with the proxy vendor, can I make exim
>> treat the 550 as a temporary error? Maybe only this particular 550?
>>
>
> You should probably better contact the firewall vendor to request a
> fix to _their_ problem. I know this is not an answer to your delivery
> problems, but we should try to ask for fixing broken servers/firewalls
> before tricking/patching our perfectly configured servers. After all
> the problem is in the firewall, not in your server.

For what it's worth I to would like to have a feature to choose to
ignore 550 errors and do something other that bounce the message. There
are times when you are sure that the 550 was in error and you wat to
take a different action. I run into that myself.