On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Daniel Tiefnig wrote: > chapter 32.2[0] of the specification document says: > "After a 4xx SMTP response for a recipient address, the whole address is > used when searching the retry rules." > > In chapter 32.4 then there's an example for "rcpt_4xx" errors, that reads: > "the.host.name rcpt_452 F,1h,10m"
> IMO these two are contradicting, as chapter 32.2 (furthered by 32.3) > suggests that for 4xx recipient errors exim never uses the remote > hostname to find a retry rule. So either the example is a wrong one, or > chapter 32.2 should be clarified accordingly. Hmm. I'll have to look at the code to see exactly what happens, and adjust the documentation to clarify it. > Wishlist Item: > > Would it be a big hack to implement similar functionality (like > rcpt_452, and the wishlisted mail_452) for unexpected connection closes? > I.e. I'd need something that would match "Remote host ... closed > connection in response to end of data" errors. I'm seeing this from a > "Ikarus MailWall" protected host quite regularly. A special error code would have to be devised for that condition, if it does not already exist, but I don't think (without looking closely) that it is a huge item. I'll put it on the WishList. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
