On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 17:53 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> If a message is deferred because of transport problems, does it get
> re-routed when it is retried?
>
> I can't tell from the manual what the behavior is. It refers to a
> "delivery attempt"; I can't tell whether that's a complete rerun of
> message handling or just of the transport. The manual also says that
> transports manage their own retries, which suggests they might just
> re-attempt the delivery.
>
> Roger West's example (thanks for the reference) from 2010-03-09 seems to
> imply rerouting occurs on retry, though it's not clear exactly how he
> forced the mail off the queue.
>
> Searching around, I also found a message that seemed to imply the
> routing was permanent--sorry can't find it now.
Found it:
In the same thread of March 9, Phil Pennock wrote "Once a mail has been
routed, it remembers the routing."
>
> Ross Boylan
>
>
P.S. I'd appreciate cc's because list mail goes into a queue at the
moment--hence my interest in rerouting it.
