Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

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Author: Renaud Allard
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To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?


Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:09:12 +0200, Renaud Allard <renaud@???>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>


Please excuse me, but I am very accustomed to the fact I am often asked "please
find a cheap and fast trick to make this thing work while people are looking at
the issue". So I find it, put it in place and guess what? People never get the
issue fixed because it now just works and they have no reason to find a clean fix.
If it is your client that has a proxy, you should maybe suggest them to put a
server with exim in place of their proxy software while the fix is being made.