Re: [exim] LMTP delivery failure

On 14/01/15 20:10, Robert Blayzor wrote:
> When using LTMP transport for delivery, what happens if LMTP kicks back an error condition to Exim? For instance in the following LTMP conversation:
[...]
> What exactly happens? Is a SMTP error (4xx or 5xx) generated back to the sending MTA or is it to late by then?

Generally MTAs operate in store-and-forward fashion, so it is too late
for this MTA to emit an error on the source SMTP conversation.

> If it's too late to return an SMTP error, does Exim handle the 4xx and 5xx at LMTP differently? Meaning a 5xx would generate a bounce and a 4xx would be queued for later delivery attempts?

Yes.
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Cheers,
Jeremy