Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

Mike Cardwell 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.
>
> 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.
>

You should also maybe put a
domains = +remote_proxied_domains
in the ACL to limit the effect (assuming you know the proxied domains of course).