On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Ron White wrote:
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> I have a bit of brain freeze I could use a jab in the right direction
> with.
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> If Exim tries to deliver a message to a remote server and gets a 5xx
> code back, say 550 no such user, am I right in thinking the message
> should fail right away with an NDR, not remain on the queue being
> re-tried?
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Correct.
> More sticky, if a remote server refuses connections from Exim - say it
> is firewalling off the connecting ip, should that fail at once or stay
> on the queue for x hours?
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Stays in the queue.
> I'm sure in the first case it should fail at once, and in the second
> retry as the connection error could be transient, but I'd like to know
> for sure before I start troubleshooting.
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> Ron
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