On 18/02/2008, Dirk Kulmsee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem around error 456. I run courier 0.53 on Debian Linux. On
> one machine mail is often rejected with "456 Address temporarily
> unavailable". After checking the configuration again and again, I suspect
> it's rather due to the behavior I found described in an earlier post
> (2007-06-26):
>
>
>
> >> Correct. A 456 error gets reported only after an earlier delivery
> >> attempt to the recipient fails.
> >> Then, Courier will reject all further
> >> deliveries to the same recipient with either a 456 or a 556,
> dependening
> >> on the circumstances, for some period of time.
>
>
>
> I have encountered a similar frustrating problem with "456" errors. A user
> had accidentally published an incorrect version of his e-mail address, this
> caused 456 errors. I decided to resolve the problem by adding the incorrect
> address (the error was in the local part) as an alias for the correct
> address, however I could not find any means that would deliver the 456
> flagged messages that were slowly expiring on the mail queue. I tried things
> such as "courier clear" and "makealiases" and stopping and restarting the
> complete mail system, all to no avail. Could any of the experts advise as to
> how to get "456" errored mail delivered, how do you specify the "period of
> time"? where is this list of unacceptable addresses?
>
> [Apologies if anybody gets this twice, might have hit the wrong control]
>
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