Chris Edwards wrote, > | We want to deliver outgoing mail with the following strategy: > | > | 1. Attempt to deliver mail directly to destination. > | > | 2. If (1) fails for *any* reason (452 DNS blacklisted, 550 DNS > | blacklist, DNS failure, or TCP timeout) then treat this as a > | temporary failure and retry immediately using the ISP mail > | spooler. > > Hi, > > As discussed yesterday, the fundamental problem is many sites > will accept your mail (2XX) and then deliver it into a spam > folder, which the user may or may not read in a timely manner, > or indeed, at all. You have no way of knowing if this has > happened.
These people are breaking the rules, and eventually all of their mail will end up in the trash (along with their expensive software). I simply want to be able to retry a 550 Permanent Failure code at my ISP. > Best to get a real server: I have one already, but this means paying 3 times for the bandwidth: once out from dynamic IP, once in to server, and once out from server. Unlike yours, our packets have to walk through the valley of the shadow of monopoly telecoms. &:-) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
