Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

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Author: Mike Cardwell
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?
Marc Haber wrote:

>>> 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.
>
> Which part of "while this is being sorted out with the proxy vendor"
> did you not understand?
>
> What I'd like to have is a temporary fix. This would also prove to the
> client that open source is far superior to closed source.


The only way I can think of doing it would be to set the callout cache
to be really small and then do something like this in the rcpt acl:

defer !verify = recipient/callout

There are numerous pitfalls to this and it's not perfect but in
practicallity it'll probably do what you want.

Mike