Re: [exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:02:41 +0100 (CET), Jakob Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafa wrote: control. My problem is, that server is configured to return 450 for invalid mailboxes, causing exim to interpret it as a temporary error. This is broken, wrong and stupid. 4xx tells other MTAs to retry,

Re: [exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-10 Thread Rafa
On 2/9/06, Jakob Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Write my own recipient verification program and call it from an ACL using run or readsocket. I think I'm going to do this anyway as Which will not work if their server is down, and that's just the time a backup mx is needed. Except for

Re: [exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-09 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Rafa wrote: control. My problem is, that server is configured to return 450 for invalid mailboxes, causing exim to interpret it as a temporary error. This is broken, wrong and stupid. 4xx tells other MTAs to retry, but as they'll never accept that mail, there is no point in doing so. 1.

Re: [exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-09 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Rafa wrote: 220 mail.abcd.com ESMTP Postfix helo test 250 mail.abcd.com mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Ok rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 450 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: User unknown in local recipient table data 554 Error: no valid recipients This causes exim to leave the

[exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-08 Thread Rafa
Hello, all I've been using exim for several years now and I'm quite satisfied by it, since it can pretty much handle any smtp related task I've had need of. Recently, tho, I was asked to provide secondary MX for another mail server that runs Postfix. This server is completely out of my control.